Re: [css-d] see #F3F1E9 on Win&Mac: weren't Web-safe colours dead?

2007-06-26 Thread Jim Nannery
Morning Luca You wrote > I was playing around with colors for a css-layout and got pretty > satisfied with a light-browns/sandy combination [#E6E3D7 - #F3F1E9] > on firefox/OSX. [see http://www.bo.ingv.it ] > Then I watched it from a windows box (IE and Firefox) and it looks > completely shifted

Re: [css-d] see #F3F1E9 on Win&Mac: weren't Web-safe colours dead?

2007-06-26 Thread liorean
On 26/06/07, Luca Postpischl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... whole sites and communities discussing color palettes and their > implications and there's still no-way to garantee an hex-value is > rendered consistently in any browser ?! There's no guarantee the exact same browser and OS, the exact

Re: [css-d] see #F3F1E9 on Win&Mac: weren't Web-safe colours dead?

2007-06-26 Thread Barney Carroll
Hex values are unambiguous and consistent in meaning - but screens are not. What's causing the difference is not the browser but the box itself. Try re-callibrating your monitors acording to their instruction manuals. Regards, Barney Luca Postpischl wrote: > > I was playing around with color

[css-d] see #F3F1E9 on Win&Mac: weren't Web-safe colours dead?

2007-06-26 Thread Luca Postpischl
I was playing around with colors for a css-layout and got pretty satisfied with a light-browns/sandy combination [#E6E3D7 - #F3F1E9] on firefox/OSX. [see http://www.bo.ingv.it ] Then I watched it from a windows box (IE and Firefox) and it looks completely shifted (light-greys/bluish). the