Re: 256 web page

[P3D jon siragusa <siragusa@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
>For the record, nobody ever said ANYTHING about rendering the IMAGES
>as 8-bit.  Web page designers should supply the highest-quality images
>they can.  It's the browser's job to render them down to the local display
>resolution, depth and size.  I simply said that the browser does a much
>better job of assigning colors on an 8-bit display when there are fewer
>images per page, ideally one.  Period.
>

I'm not sure how the SunOS version of Netscape handles 8-bit displays
but in the 8-bit Windows realm, Netscape converts all images to the
same 8-bit palette.  Actually the palette only contains 216 colors
not the full 256 that 8-bits would provide.

The point being that it wouldn't matter how many images you put
on a page, they're all getting quantized down to the same 8-bit
palette.  At least this is how it works in Windows.  

jon



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