From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2001 - 08:33:49 MDT
Tudor Oprea wrote:
>
> It is the responsibility of the web designer to ensure that a site will be
> viewable under the widest possible range of configurations. The GIF
> format actually has a variable colour depth, up to 256. Any photomanipulation
> program worth its name - Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, for example - will
> offer web-optimized encoding palettes of 216 colours, with adequate
> dithering algorithms that allow even users with lowly old VGA displays to
> view graphics correctly. Have you (Mike) tried this?
Yes, and it views fine on a number of machines I have used, including
ones set to the default VGA settings. I suspect there is something
peculiar with JR's particular system.
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