Standardize color selection throughout site

[foxfirefey]

Title:
Standardize color selection throughout site

Area:
Customization, circle management

Summary:
I want an improved color picker, and all places on the site that pick colors to be the same.

Description:
Right now, I can think of two places on Dreamwidth that have color selection:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options?group=style
http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/circle/edit

I want us to pick out a jQuerified plugin, such as ColorPicker, and use it on both of those pages instead of the current disparate systems.

This suggestion has a caveat, however, in that it changes the way the circle colors work--right now, those colors seem to be artificially limited to a given set in the front end. However, I don't think giving people more options with a (possibly better) UI would be amiss here.

Any implementation would have to consider users who do not use Javascript, however, and make sure they have a usable interface still.

Poll #3752 Standardize color selection throughout site

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 32

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Should be implemented as-is.
17 (53.1%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (3.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (3.1%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (40.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[azurelunatic]

I would like to note that the LJ friends management API allows third-party tools to specify different colors, even though this may have been one of the things that broke for us in the WTF switch. So allowing any arbitrary color for friend colors is supported legacy behavior, and thus tradition would be a bogus reason to turn this down.

[zvi]

You can set any color if you do it through relationship management to a single account, instead of the circle management page.

[foxfirefey]

Yeah, I looked in the backend and it was using hex codes, so there's no technical reason people shouldn't be able to enter any color they want. Not to mention it'd be a lot easier for somebody to make it match their layout's colors that way!