It's even worse than I thought. Wired's WebMonkey has done some in depth testing to see if web designers really need to stick with the cannonical 216 "web safe colors" palette. Turns out that 216 is a little too many if you really want to ensure that the colors will display properly (especially important if you are trying to hide an image by making it - or it's background - the same color as the page background.) Here's the very sad "really safe colors" palette. As they said in the article, "hope you like green." For more info, here's the conclusions, and here's the start of the article.
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- jim 9-11-2000 3:38 pm