Also called a "Web-safe palette," it was selected by Netscape in the early days of the Web when many computers supported only 8-bit color and could render only 256 colors. Today, most computers ...

also called a "color map" or "color palette," that is stored with the image. Rather than each pixel in the image having all three RGB colors (one 8-bit red, one 8-bit green and one 8-bit blue ...