Originally Posted by domi

One of the biggest ironies in Web development is that most of us creating Web sites have better systems than our audience has. Some visitors to your Web site are using computers that can only display 8-bit color (256 colors). Others have newer systems that include 16-bit or 32-bit video cards, but they don't even know they can check or change their settings from 8-bit! This means they can't see every color in the spectrum like you can, and that's where the Web safe colors come into play.