[WEB4LIB] Re: color depth of palm pilots?

[Kevin W. Bishop]

We're launching our laptop program this fall - requisite purchase for
incoming students - and the standard model (IBM ThinkPad600 series or
better) will have something like 16 million colors (24 bit?) with a max.
resolution of 1024x768.  

How does this affect web page design?  All the usual constraints, er,
"rules" still apply ... we must always consider HTML validation, browser
limitations on X-Windows stations, run-of-the-mill Wintel stations (and now
laptops), Macs, the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative, etc., etc.  

-kb

At 12:15 PM 7/28/99 -0700, Leo Robert Klein wrote:
>On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 David Merchant wrote:
>
>>I read that most laptops have 256 color depth (though one source says 250),
>>but I haven't found anything that tells me the average color depth of a
>>palm pilot (I'm completely ignorant of those critters.  They use Windows CE
>>don't they?).
>
>I can't imagine "most" laptops nowadays have 256 colors (known
>affectionately as 8 bit color)--that really harkens back to the pre-Super
>VGA age of Windows 3.0.  The Compac Presarios which we bought for student
>use here over a year ago--just to take one example--are quite fine with up
>to 24 bit color (i.e. millions of colors).
>
>You can tell a computer running 256 colors by the distinctly grainy
>appearence of photographic images.  Most Wintel machines still
>come--ludricously enough--with 256 colors as the default setting which is
>like running a new car at no more than five miles an hour.
>
>LEO
>
>
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