Re: Cross-Platform Cross Browser? (Web Safe Imaes)

[Sean Robertson]

One question, one suggestion:

Question: How did you decide what order to put those colors in?

Suggestion: Put the names in for those colors that have them (blue, red,

etc.).


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From: Jason Nugent <

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Date: Friday, July 24, 1998 3:25 PM

Subject: RE: Cross-Platform Cross Browser? (Web Safe Imaes)



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> If anyone is interested,  I created a single HTML page that

>contains a table with every web-safe colour in it.  The hex values are

>there, as well as the complete RGB values.  The file was created for a

>course I teach at a local university.

>

> http://tuweb.ucis.dal.ca/~jnugent/teach/216hue.html

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> I figured this might go in with the recent talk on colours.

>

> Jason

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>

>On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Jean Dukate wrote:

>

>> Actaully this does bring up a good point. How many people design Flash

>> sites with the understanding of web safe colors? Some do some don't. I

>> never gave it much concern til one day I pulled up one of our sites at a

>> university library. All of their monitors had a lower resolution then

>> what I had created the images with. So what I saw was alot of the flat

>> colors areas had speckled looking color due to the lower res monitors

>> trying to simulate the color I picked. After that I realized that when

>> choosing flat colors it becomes very important to at least TRY to choose

>> web safe colors especailly when using falt color areas. Obviously images

>> that are made up of multiple colors are more challenging but flat colors

>> are easier to get within web safe range.

>>

>> Colin Moock (list member) posted a tool a day or so ago that some may

>> find useful. I haven't had time to check it out myself.

>>

>> http://colinmoock.iceinc.com/webdesign/colours/schememachine.html

>>

>>

>> My personal recommendation is this site.

>> http://www.lightlink.com/xine/bells/charts.html

>>

>> It gives you all the info about web safe colors you'll need. Most

>> importantly there is areally nice RGB color chart. Click on the link

>> called Web Safe RGB table. After viewing the page I saved this single

>> html document to my desktop so I can easily bring it up in a browser

>> when choosing RGB values for flat colors inside Flash or when I build

>> any web graphic that has a flat color.

>>

>>

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> > From: Brett Roberts[SMTP:brobenaxs [dot] com]

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> > Reply To: flashershocker [dot] com

>> > Sent: Friday, July 24, 1998 6:08 AM

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> > To: flashershocker [dot] com

>> > Subject: Cross-Platform Cross Browser?

>> >

>> >

>> > also,,being a design firm in a small city...people always worry about

>> > ...

>> > why does it look this way in one browser one resolution and different

>> > in

>> > another.... my question is ...is it a real pain just to stick this

>> > movie

>> > out there and assume that noone will have trouble getting their

>> > browser to

>> > play it without a hassle?

>> >

>> >

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