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Posted by Zamdrist on July 20, 2007, 4:23 pm
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Been awhile since I've done any significant html work. Was wondering
if I need to worry at all about colors and using html safe colors? I
can't imagine too many people browsing the web anymore at 256 colors.
Thanks,
Steve
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Posted by David E. Ross on July 20, 2007, 4:59 pm
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Zamdrist wrote:
> Been awhile since I've done any significant html work. Was wondering
> if I need to worry at all about colors and using html safe colors? I
> can't imagine too many people browsing the web anymore at 256 colors.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
W3Schools reports color usage at
<http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp>, about
half-way down the page. Note, however, that their audience is
somewhat specialized and does not reflect the general world.
Still, their comment about hand-held devices is important; there is
a growing audience who use cell phones to surf the Web. Although
not noted regarding screen resolution (the earlier tabulation on
the same page), resolution for hand-held devices should also be
considered.
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David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>.
Don't ask "Why is there road rage?" Instead, ask
"Why NOT Road Rage?" or "Why Is There No Such
Thing as Fast Enough?"
<http://www.rossde.com/roadrage.html>
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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on July 20, 2007, 5:24 pm
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Scripsit David E. Ross:
> Zamdrist wrote:
>> Been awhile since I've done any significant html work. Was wondering
>> if I need to worry at all about colors and using html safe colors? I
>> can't imagine too many people browsing the web anymore at 256 colors.
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> W3Schools reports color usage
It has been repeatedly said and demonstrated in this and other groups that
W3schools contains much rubbish, and it's unreliable as any kind of
reference.
> Still, their comment about hand-held devices is important; there is
> a growing audience who use cell phones to surf the Web.
That's irrelevant to the question about "HTML safe colors". If you use a
color that is not one of the colors supported by a display device, it will
be mapped to the nearest supported color. So what's the problem?
"Web-safe colors" were an issue years ago, relating to colors used in
_images_.
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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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Posted by David E. Ross on July 20, 2007, 8:06 pm
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On 7/20/2007 2:24 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote [in part]:
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> It has been repeatedly said and demonstrated in this and other groups that
> W3schools contains much rubbish, and it's unreliable as any kind of
> reference.
If you look at the trends reported by W3Schools and not the absolute
numbers, the statistics are supported by observations made by others.
It's unimportant whether IE's market share has dropped by 29.5% since
2003 (W3Schools) or 11.3% since 2005 (my own talley). It is important
that IE's share of the browser market has declined significantly.
As for color depth and display resolution, even if W3Schools' data is
off, there are still a number of users of 16-bit color (I use 32-bit
color) and 800x600 resolution (including me). Should we design our Web
pages only for 32-bit color and 1280x1024 resolution? I don't think so.
--
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>.
Don't ask "Why is there road rage?" Instead, ask
"Why NOT Road Rage?" or "Why Is There No Such
Thing as Fast Enough?"
<http://www.rossde.com/roadrage.html>
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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on July 20, 2007, 9:45 pm
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David E. Ross wrote:
> As for color depth and display resolution, even if W3Schools' data is
> off, there are still a number of users of 16-bit color (I use 32-bit
> color) and 800x600 resolution (including me). Should we design our Web
> pages only for 32-bit color and 1280x1024 resolution? I don't think so.
>
That is one of the fundamental errors people make to justify a certain
resolution to design for, monitor resolution has nothing to do with what
size the user's browser is at when looking at your page. The larger the
monitor is the less likely the user has the browser maximized but is
multitasking with more than one window! I rarely have a browser
maximized on 1228 x 1024. Long, long ago with my nose press against a
whopping 14 incher the browser was set to max often!
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Take care,
Jonathan
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