browser safe colors?

[pohopo]

So who still sticks with browser safe colors? I admit that I use whatever colors I want without any regard to browser safe colors. If someone is still stuck on a 256 colors then don't come to my site. :p

[shonuff]

Nah, I never have. I was under the assumption that if a certain color was not available, the browser would render the next closest available color to it. Am I wrong? Not that I'll change anything but... :p

[Drakla]

Damn right! I sometimes design sites using only infra red and ultra violet so that bees, rattlesnakes, firemen and people who've had cateracts removed can enjoy the fun. I also had a very nice email from Predator II.

[Merve]

I never cared about browser-safe colours and never will. They are an issue of the past. If you're still using a four-year-old browser on a 256-colour setting, you deserve to have sites render improperly for you. On top of that, I want to be precise in terms of what colours I use. I don't want to be limited.

[8ta8ta]

Forget about 256 colors!

[foid025]

I actually counted and I use five hundred fourty nine billion quadrillion bajillion trillion colors.

So yeah I left 256 behind.



Similarly, to what extent do you guys try to make your pages work cross-browser? A lot, a little... in between?

[bradgrafelman]

Cross-browser? I design for FireFox since I'm a Windows person. If it doesn't work in IE, so what? People should get a decent browser.

[Merve]

I design for Firefox first. Then I make a separate stylesheet for Internet Explorer using the previous one as a base. I'm pretty sure that it's not the way you're supposed to do it, but that's the only way I know how.

[foid025]

i've been incredibly lazy and haven't tried any other browsers for my recent work... i have firefox and downloaded all these little tidbits for it, but it opens so slowly on my computer (im not patient so anything above a second is slow) that i just use ie... especially now that i have tabs on my ie.