Brian Grinstead

I love jsFiddle! One feature that would make it even better is a lorem ipsum generator. When using Microsoft Word, you can type =lorem(100) and press enter, then it will generate 100 paragraphs of Lorem Ipsum for you. You can also type =rand(100) and it will pull in data from their help manual.

I have been playing with the Chrome Developer Tools lately. Here is a cool feature I didn't know about.

I always thought it would be awesome to have a colorpicker in browser developer tools. Who wants to guess at hex colors or open up a separate program just to get a color code? Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks a colorpicker inside the developer toolbar would be nice.

I wanted a JavaScript colorpicker that didn't require images, and that had an API that made sense to me as a developer who has worked with color in a number of applications. I had used existing plugins (which I was quite grateful for), but decided that I would make a smaller, simpler one.

I needed color parsing for my JavaScript colorpicker. I couldn’t find many small frameworks that handled exactly what I wanted, though. So I wrote my own color parsing library and called it TinyColor.

When working on my javascript colorpicker, one of the things I thought would be really cool is if you could resize it and have the colorpicker automatically respond to different widths. When I first made it, I had basically defined static widths with the thought that there could be different themes (small, normal, large) which defined different widths.

I worked on a 10K Apart entry this year. I made a page explaining some of the development, and have my color picker / scheme generator hosted here.

Use ColorStash now – generate color schemes and convert colors

For most browsers, you can use the linear gradient vendor property with multiple color stops. In IE, the filter property does not support color stops, so we have to fake it with 6 divs, each with a single color stop gradient. It works in Internet Explorer, back to version 5.5.

I have been wanting to add colorpickers in a couple of projects recently, and was not happy with the options. Just search JavaScript Colorpicker and you'll see what I mean. It got me thinking about what I wanted out of a colorpicker.