Making stuff as a founder of Avocado. Former music-maker. Tuna melt advocate. Started Google Reader. (But smarter people made it great.)

Try this HTML color picker. It's nifty.

OH the show Wednesday night was so fun. More about that later. And I'll talk about Bollywood later after some sleep.

Start the color picker.
For now, why not tell me if you like this little HTML Color Picker that I wrote? It uses an expanded palette (meaning it has more than the 256 "web-safe" colors) and it doesn't use any images. Unfortunately, it's too big at ~270KB, but it has the interface that I need to embed in an app that I'm writing. It's written for IE 5+ (for Windows) and Netscape 6.1 and Mozilla 0.9.4+ (both on any platform they support). Maybe you could optimize it while retaining the functionality?

And then send the optimized code to me? :)

Update: David Medovoy did a quick turnaround (! - an hour or two after posting this? Wow.) that relies on Javascript and the user agent to write the HTML, thus reducing the actual page size and, quite likely, decreasing load time for those with limited bandwidth but whose processing speed is ample. (Before, I had said "increasing load time" b/c I didn't copy edit well. Ugh.) His solution is here, but he warns that his "javascript is really pretty bad, so you might want to fix it up before using it though." I haven't done a code review, but the result works well in at least IE5+ (on Windows) and Mozilla 0.9.5.

Posted at October 25, 2001 01:13 PM
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