Death of the Websafe Color Palette?
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Web Monkey
bq. One of the givens of Web design, the holiest of holy truths, is the sanctity of the 216 websafe color palette. It's a rite of initiation for every Web designer or developer: Use only these colors, we are told, and don't question why.
bq. But it's been more than three years since Lynda Weinman assembled her "browser safe palette" for Photoshop, and a lot has changed in the world of Web design since then. Designers have kept up with changes in client-side technologies, such as dHTML and Flash, and we've given up font tags in favor of CSS styles, tables for divs. Yet we cling to the 216 websafe color palette even though it continues to be the bane of a Web designer's existence.
Posted by DaveH at November 14, 2003 2:45 PM