web-safe colors

[AaronCampbell]

Well, I know that this has been touched on before, and I read some old threads on it, but most of them were on what they are, and what they're for. My question is, how important are they? It seems that according to w3schools' "Browser Stats" (http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp) estimates that 94% of users can display 65,536 or more colors. I know that many PDAs and cell-phones display only the 216 websafe colors, but you can have a seperate stylesheet for those right?

[RysChwith]

My understanding is that it's not so much whether a browser will display the other colors, it's whether it will display them correctly. The 216 are guaranteed to look pretty much as you intended; the others can get a bit iffy. That being said, I can't recall encountering a color issue before. I suspect this is largely a holdover from the olden days.

Rys

[AaronCampbell]

I wonder HOW far off it would be. I'm not trying to do any intricate graphics or anything, I just want to alternate colors in a table between #FFFFFF & #EFEFEF (#CCCCCC is too dark).

[scoutt]

I used eeeeee as that is not as dark as cccccc. also, I think c0c0c0 is pretty good too.

[AaronCampbell]

There are LOTS of good shades of grey, the question is, should I use them?

[scoutt]

why not? the worst that can happen is that they don't show like you want. most of the problem with web-safe colors was the Netscape browser. it had big issues with it. now-a-days you really shouldn't have that big of a problem.