What about WebSafe colors

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What about WebSafe colors

My father with whom I'm going to create a website (I just got him away from using Dreamweaver and font-tags) keeps talking about WebSafe colors he has to use for the background images. I keep telling him that that was about 1999 but he doesn't believe me.

What are WebSafe colors?
When and where were they needed?
What the hell anyway?

This is no joke.

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Look what I found in half a second

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors

No longer relevant unless you have a 16-bit display pipeline.

Azeem.Butt 2010-04-04 19:24:14

If you have a 16-bit display, then you wouldn't need web-safe colors as you could have up to 65k colors (2^16). The web-safe colors were really about **8-bit** displays, since 2^8 is 256 and the palette is 216 colors.

Nitrodist 2010-04-05 09:03:06

I think Websafe colors used to refer to the colers which can always be displayed, even if the computer is using a 256 color palette.

This does absolute not matter anymore, because any computer sold within the last 10 years have been using true color.

Martin Tilsted 2010-04-04 19:27:04

Forget about websafe colors, most of them are way too ugly anyways. ;)

Fogh 2010-04-04 19:27:38

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