Q1577 How do I detect the browser's color depth and change the background graphic/color accordingly?

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Q1577 How do I detect the browser's color depth and change the background graphic/color accordingly?

in Internet Explorer 4+ and Netscape Navigator 4+ only with something like:

<html>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript"><!--
var bg = '256.gif';

if (window.screen && window.screen.colorDepth > 8)
  bg = 'morecolours.jpg';

document.write('<body background="' bg + '">';
//--></script>
</head>

</body>
</html>

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January 13, 2003 at 13:16:58 nancy kight

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