Curated by: Luigi Canali De Rossi
 


Friday, July 9, 2004

The 22-Color Web-Safe Palette?

Thanks to a news post inside the Lockergnome Web Developers weekly email-based news-dispatch I noticed a short news item referring to the death of the web-safe color palette. As the news item failed to report that the source of that story was a four-years old article that had appeared on WebMonkey at the beginning of this new century (2000) I headed off to learn about one of those topics that for a long time had taken center stage in our Web Publishing workshops, training classes and in much of our Web design work for our customers. Surprised to see a September 2000 date I anyhow set-out to give a look to the article. Nonetheless the deep changes that have taken place in the last four years, with the advent of much more capable hardware, video memory, better grahics display cards and Internet browsers, the issue of Web-safe colors may still have some relevance. For once it helps independent publishers remain aware of the fact that color consistency on the Internet has been long a next-to-impossible goal to achieve. Reading with ATTENTION this very well written and nicely documented report provides a lot of useful understanding of some of the technical issues and hurdles we have had to go through to make consistent color display across different browsers and operating systems. But what is the status of color compatibility on the Web now? Who has the update on color consistency and compatibility as of 2004?. I'd like to find out.

 

 

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Readers' Comments    
2004-08-20 09:50:52

Stuey

"But what is the status of color compatibility on the Web now? Who has the update on color consistency and compatibility as of 2004?."

well Charles Upsdell has stats on colour-depth trends

http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat_trends.htm

8-bit (256 colours): ~2% of page accesses
16-bit (65 536 colours): ~30% of page accesses
24-bit and more (16 777 216 colours, and more): ~64% of page accesses

AOL 8-bit (256 colours): ~5% of page accesses, by users of an AOL browser with image compression enabled

cheers



 
posted by Robin Good on Friday, July 9 2004, updated on Tuesday, May 5 2015

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