FLASH: OT: A Contradiction??

[David]

According to discussion I've seen here and other places, my understanding is

that approximately 90% of those using the web today are able to view Flash

content.  I noticed over on

http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2000/February/colors.html that currently

there are approximately 8% of those using the web today who are still under

256 8-bit color.


Assuming a margin for error and different numbers that different stat sites

may provide, it looks like there are "roughly" the same number of people who

cannot view Flash as who cannot view greater than 256 colors.  However, I

think everyone agrees it's perfectly acceptable to use Flash, as the

percentage of those who cannot view Flash is rather small.  Yet it seems

most people still feel you must use web safe colors even though the number

of people who cannot view more than 256 colors is about the same as those

who cannot view Flash.  Does it not make sense that using more than 256

colors should work just as well as using Flash?  100% compatibility isn't

normally the goal (or we wouldn't use Flash, right?).  Isn't it to get as

high a compatibly as possibly within reason?


Moving on to the Mac color versus PC color issue - this is where I need

help.  I understand that within the 256 colors, there are 40 that are

displayed differently between a Mac and PC (what "differently" is, though, I

do not know as I do not own a Mac).  However, does this "color discrepancy"

carry over to 24- or 32-bit color between Macs and PCs?  If a Mac and PC are

both in 24- or 32-bit color, will there still be a significant number of

colors that are displayed in a dramatically different way?


-DGL



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