IF IT S WEB SAFE, DON T USE IT

IF IT'S WEB SAFE, DON'T USE IT

The one palette that we absolutely don't use at all anymore is the Web-safe Color palette (choose Web Color Sliders from the Color palette's flyout menu). Why? You don't need it and it can make your file sizes significantly larger than necessary. The Web-safe colors were created back when most computer users had computers that could only display a maximum of 256 colors. Out of those 256, the "Web-safe" colors were the 216 colors that were the same on both Macintosh and Windows browsers. Even back then you could still use a non-Web-safe color, but it might dither to the next closest Web-safe color so the color might be off a bit. However, if you've ever looked at a row of monitors at the computer store, you'll notice the color is slightly different on every one, but that's another story. Luckily these days, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone using such a lame computer that it only displays 256 colors. They haven't sold a computer like that for literally years.