What about WebSafe colors

My fat开发者_JS百科her with whom I'm going to create a website (I just got him away from using Dreamweaver and font-tags) keeps talking about WebSafe colors he has to use for the background images. I keep telling him that that was about 1999 but he doesn't believe me.

• What are WebSafe colors?
• When and where were they needed?
• What the hell anyway?

This is no joke.

Look what I found in half a second

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors

No longer relevant unless you have a 16-bit display pipeline.

Forget about websafe colors, most of them are way too ugly anyways. ;)

I think Websafe colors used to refer to the colers which can always be displayed, even if the computer is using a 256 color palette.

This does absolute not matter anymore, because any computer sold within the last 10 years have been using true color.