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

[Lewis Francis]

MM,


Sorry, but the websafe palette is a bit of a myth.


Some time ago I looked into the matter and wrote up a doc outlining

problems we were seeing with supposedly safe palette choices from the NS

216 -- basically problems arise with browsers when viewed in 16-bit

screen depths, which of course is the default setting for all shipping

computers afaict.


The docs are out of date now but the basic info is there -- for

instance, PC IE 5.5 seemingly passes the test on:


http://people.magnet.com/~lfrancis/colors/colors.html


...but on closer inspection we find that while PC IE 5.5 matches colors,

it does so by dithering both foreground gifs and table/bg colors!


Flash won't dither, so you'll have to choose a color that IE also won't

dither.  Sigh.


To sum up, if you wish to seamlessly match foreground and background

colors, then the mythical websafe palette is a good place to start but

needs validating by testing on all your target platforms.


Hope this helps,


Lewis


Motomichi wrote:


> 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.

>


--  Lewis Francis

--  VP Media Technologies

lfrancismagnet [dot] com (mailto:lfrancismagnet [dot] com)

--  Magnet Interactive Group     http://www.magnet.com/



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