Reasons to use a web safe color pallet

[Jon_King]

With all new video cards and monitors running far above the 216 web safe color pallet is there any reason to adhere to this seemingly outdated standard? I don't, your comments please.

[pageoneresults]

No major concerns that I can think of. Here are some reasons why I still use a color safe palette.

• I have the colors memorized.
  
• Keeps my CSS files a litte trimmer. I use CSS shorthand for colors where possible. All of the web safe colors are paired color values.

Outside of those two reasons above, I can't think of anything else that would require someone to utilize the 216 web safe color palette.

Oh wait, it may be still of benefit to those using AOL/IE since they still utilize their proprietary compression method which I believe is based on the 216 color palette, I'm not 100% sure of that.

I just like using it because the hex codes are much easier to remember, especially using CSS shorthand...

color:#369;background;#fff;

[Shannon Moore]

One reason is if your site's target market is likely to be browsing in 256 colors or less -- color cellphones, etc.

For several years now, Lynda Weinman (widely published web designer) has officially declared the web safe color palette "safe to ignore" in most design situations:
htt*://www.lynda.com/hex.html