JavaScript challenge

[stlewis]

I've found this beautiful colour picker which I would love to use for my design-a-wall page. BUT it falls over in IE 5. It seems to be to do with the minus colour numbers it produces. IE 5 can cope with some of the layers, though not all. Needless to say Opera 5 cannot cope either.

Have you found a more browser independent equivalent - or can you fix the code!

If you fancy the challenge, have a look:

http://home.netscape.com/computing/w...9981111-5.html

Many thanks!!!

www.thelondonhouse.co.uk

[stlewis]

I've found this beautiful colour picker which I would love to use for my design-a-wall page. BUT it falls over in IE 5. It seems to be to do with the minus colour numbers it produces. IE 5 can cope with some of the layers, though not all. Needless to say Opera 5 cannot cope either.

Have you found a more browser independent equivalent - or can you fix the code!

If you fancy the challenge, have a look:

http://home.netscape.com/computing/w...9981111-5.html

Many thanks!!!

www.thelondonhouse.co.uk

[Jen Worden]

Argh! Wish I could help you Simon - time just doesn't allow right at the moment. Sorry! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img]

However, I did have a thought - there is a similar beast that does work in IE 4+ at http://www.colorschemer.com/online/. Maybe you could do a browser sniffer that would send NN to one and IE to the other?

Good luck!

cfn ... Jen
Jen Worden
Web Developer
www.meadoworks.com

[stlewis]

I've put Version 1 at the address below for anyone interested to take a look at.

www.tlaconsultancy.co.uk/upload/colour.html

This is, as you can see, based on a palette method - using XaraX I created a matrix of colours where the base colours are across the bottom and tints of each are in the columns above. I then had to record the #ffffff code and put that into the JavaScript. Oh what a fiddle!

It seems to work in Netscape 4 and IE. Opera doesn't like putting a background colour behind transparent gifs. Nuts.

For printing, you need to set your browser to print backgrounds.

I'd love to use the LAYER-driven approach of Michael Bostock's Color Picker 2.0, but IE 5 has some trouble with it - and so will older browsers - so it needs complex re-working.

I'd also like to give immediate feedback on the colours chosen - in IE I could flick the bgcolor of a table's cell, but Netscape can't cope - I would need to use layers. So one solution would test for browser and then do one of these.

Another trick will be to put more complex images into the bands - so a dado has a patterned effect, for example.

Any comments very gratefully received.

www.thelondonhouse.co.uk