Expain hybrid more fully … do you mean a dithering, or a pattern, or something else.
BTW, the web safe palette is a historical artifact now, no longer something necessary the way it was in 1996. Very few people use monitors that cannot see more than 256 colors (less than 2 %, last time I checked).
Ok, never mind, I’ll just go with the color I have and not make a hybrid color. Thank you!
Checkerboard GIFs using two or more websafe colors are never a good idea, because they don’t compress well.
Phosphor,
"Checkerboard GIFs using two or more websafe colors are never a good idea, because they don’t compress well."
They don’t compress as well as a solid color would but you only need a small tile and it is after-all only two colors. The file will still be well below 1K (As in double digit bytes).
The big issue is the way text will look on a dithered background. The answer is not good.
Shelley,
Just use BGCOLOR. If you need to match the color to elements on the page you may want to use a single color GIF file to be sure the colors render the same shade. For a single color GIF you are also better off using a 100×100 tile size vs the urge to use a 1×1 pixel image because the browser will take less time to render the page (Not that this is usually a problem with todays computers, It is just better web etiquette).
