On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Stephan Goeldi wrote:

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According to a recent study, there are approximately 13 'web safe' colours, out of the full 16,777,216.

What makes the other 15,777,203 'unsafe'?

If you mean the 'browsersafe colours' then there are 218.

Yes, my mistake. I did mean 'browser safe'. I was aware of the previous belief of 216 (mostly because of 256 colour modes less 40 system colours), but as I stated, a recent study has "dispelled the myth", claiming (and now I correct myself :) only 22 browser safe colours. http://slashdot.org/articles/00/09/08/1622204.shtml has some more details, and a link to the actual article.

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The only other possible reason I can recall is that some of the 'named' colours are not supported by all browsers, or are not interpreted the same.

No, the problem is, that they are not displayed the same.

Not long after posting my message I realised this also. (o8

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Have a better one, Curtis Maloney