BACKGROUND COLOR IN RGB CODE    
                                   
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                   RGB Numerical Equivalents for RED, GREEN, AND BLUE
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  DIRECTIONS -- IMPORTANT!!:  When first using this "color equivalence calculator," it is essential that one quickly move the mouse over each of the color buttons (the +RED -BLUE etc. ones) to initialize each of the color controls.  You will know that the program is correctly and completely initialized when numbers appear in ALL THREE of the colored boxes. Otherwise, one will get some strange, inaccurate (and irritating) effects. 

The second thing to keep in mind is that while the RGB numbers at the bottom are almost always within a tolerance of one or two integers of the RGB code at the top, the program itself, for reasons quite esoteric to me, does not always "catch up" in time to give a completely accurate translation.  Thus, if you want to correct this minor discrepency so that the RGB numbers reflect EXACTLY the RGB code displayed, press and hold your TAB key for a second or two.  This will cause the numbers to "refresh" almost instantly and give an exact numerical equivilent of the actual background color, rather than an almost-but-not-quite-exact equivalence. 

Unfortunately, however, this only fixes the RGB NUMBERS, but the CODE at the top still will fall out of exact correspondence.  To fix this, simply move your mouse over one of the three text boxes at the bottom to rectify their corresponding code at the top.  For example, if the number in the box at the bottom reads "250" after you've pressed the TAB key for a second or two and refreshed its display, it is likely that the CODE display at the top reads something slightly different than "FA" -- which would be the correct code for RGB number 250!  However, if you move your mouse pointer over the box reading "250" while you're simultanously looking at the top CODE BOX, you should see this change to the correct CODE -- which in this case would be "FA".  Just make sure that you press the TAB key both before and after this process to make sure that the RGB NUMBER boxes are refreshed.

LASTLY:

As of January 23rd, 2005, the program now runs a little faster in Netscape than it did before.  However, you will find that the RGB numbers and code still move much faster in response to mouseOver events in Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer.