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

[Motomichi]

Thanks for the great tips. I think my concern is that what if I use non-web

safe RGB colors in flash but with whith white background? Are some colors

are going to appear in different colors? I thought if the screens are set to

16 bits browsers adjust to more colors? Am I wrong? Please help!!


mm


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From: ownerchinwag [dot] com (flasher-digest)

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> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 22:17:50 GMT

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> Subject: flasher-digest V1 #4109

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From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Lewis

> Francis

> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 10:39 AM

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To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

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

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>

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 The docs are out of date now but the basic info is there -- for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

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> 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



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