RE: FLASH: Web safe color even for Flash??

[Andy Mrozkowski]

This really depends on your target audience. Most desktops monitors come set

at 16 bit color as a default and most users don't change it. Power Users

will often bump it up to 24 bit. Older laptop displays will often only be

able to display 256 (8 bit) color so in that situation, 216 (web safe)

colors would be the only (non-dithering solution).

I am a power user, but I design UI for software with 256 requirements. So I

boot up at 8 bit (Windows NT4). Most Flash looks terrible at this color

depth so experiment with the different settings and examine your target

audience and then test on that audience.

hth

andy


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> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 8:04 PM

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> Subject: FLASH: Web safe color even for Flash??

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>

> Hi,

>

> Pardon me if this has been discussed here many times in he past..

>

> I am wondering if you should always stick with 216 web safe color

> with Flash

> even though the target audience has 16bits or more resolution. I

> believe as

> far as the color is in RGB value you can use it in Flash right? If anyone

> knows about this please let me know.

>

> thanks in advance

> mm

>

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