The reason I would like more than the 16 colors is too support other peoples fonts and have more flexibility for graphic design.
Windows has a pallette of about 16 colors? Maybe win95. A basic windows color pallete using a 640x480 res is 256 colors. A full color palette using "true color" has the capacity for 16,777,216 different possible colors.
One website only uses a couple different colors so it doesnt look messy, but what you are suggesting would be analagous to ALL websites only allowing 16 colors which, of course, is ridiculous.
Bottom line, your opinion is appreciated argv0, but it is only your opinion. I personally would utilize a full color pallete if it were available. I'd like to be able to call colors by their rgb value and not be limited to 16 colors which requires an alias to convert the rgb value to the closest color available among my chosen 16, which is what I've had to do.
