Solutions discussed in usability wrap-up:
* Investigate and assess external color choosers for possible replacement of current color chooser

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Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

The obvious other candidate is http://drupal.org/project/jquery_colorpicker

aspilicious’s picture

aspilicious commented

If we are going to switch the colorpicker the jquery one is a good sugegstion.
Main difference is the way the colorpicker is displayed. The jquery colorpicker only pops up if the user click on a color.
This means we don't have to care anymore about placing the colorpicker somewhere on the screen

pro switching to jquery
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- no colorwheel standard on the page
- easier to understand
- if there are lots of color options the farbastic colorpicker can be detached to much from the color select box.

con switching to jquery
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- colorwheel takes more space (but its only a popup...)
- I like the appearance of the current one

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mfer commented

The color picker on http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/ (a pop-up) is farbtastic. It pops in where they want it. The setup we have is not a limitation of farbtastic but a limitation of what we are currently implementing.

The real question to ask between these two is, do we want a color wheel or the other (not sure what to call it). The other points are a matter of how we implement choosing a color in the UI.

A close second question is how do these pickers work with touch events. Farbtastic doesn't but I could add them if needed.

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markhalliwell
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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Dup of #481682: Decide what to do with Farbtastic library