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

[Phillip Kerman]

The concept of web safe colors only applies to users with their monitor set

to 256 colors (8 bit).  Anything higher and it doesn't matter.  Also, since

Flash uses gradiation of color when it anti-aliases, there's no such thing

as web-safe color in Flash.  My recommendation is to forget about it if

you're building a Flash animation.


If you're creating gifs you can probably make a case for it, but in Flash I

don't see the point.


Phillip



>

> 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

>

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 The docs are out of date now but the basic info is there -- for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

> >

>



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