On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Stephan Goeldi wrote: > > > > According to a recent study, there are approximately 13 'web safe' > > > > colours, out of the full 16,777,216. > > > > > > What makes the other 15,777,203 'unsafe'? > > If you mean the 'browsersafe colours' then there are 218. > Yes, my mistake. I did mean 'browser safe'. I was aware of the previous belief of 216 (mostly because of 256 colour modes less 40 system colours), but as I stated, a recent study has "dispelled the myth", claiming (and now I correct myself :) only 22 browser safe colours. http://slashdot.org/articles/00/09/08/1622204.shtml has some more details, and a link to the actual article. > >The only other possible reason I can recall is that some of the 'named' > >colours are not supported by all browsers, or are not interpreted the > > same. > > No, the problem is, that they are not displayed the same. > Not long after posting my message I realised this also. (o8 > -goe- > Have a better one, Curtis Maloney _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )