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

[foxfirefey]

Well, I find the current color system in the S2 area to be clumsy and awkward--it pops open a new window, and current color picking implementations have gotten sleek enough that you don't really need that anymore. For instance, I imagine on something like an iPad, the current implementation is less than ideal compared to an in-page Javascript one.

Using a third party plugin is just common sense; there's open source ones and we use jQuery as our Javascript base. It's way less work to build on other open source products!

And hey, good catch!