- From: Walter Ian Kaye <boo@best.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1976 13:28:41 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
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><!-- There are also 16 widely known color names:
>
> Black = #000000 Green = #008000
> Silver = #C0C0C0 Lime = #00FF00
> Gray = #808080 Olive = #808000
> White = #FFFFFF Yellow = #FFFF00
> Maroon = #800000 Navy = #000080
> Red = #FF0000 Blue = #0000FF
> Purple = #800080 Teal = #008080
> Fuchsia= #FF00FF Aqua = #00FFFF
>
> These colors were originally picked as being the standard
> 16 colors supported with the Windows VGA palette. The above
> gives the sRGB values in hex (#RRGGBB).
> -->
There is a problem with half of these colors -- "80" and "C0" are not in
the 216-color dither-free cross-platform palette used by Netscape, Mosaic,
and Internet Explorer. The included codes are 00, 33, 66, 99, CC, and FF.
I'm not crazy about the palette (only 4 shades of grey?!), but it *is* the
standard cross-platform palette.
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Received on Thursday, 5 September 1996 12:34:13 UTC