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I am Paul Kinlan.

A Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google.

I love the web. The web should allow anyone to access any experience that they need without the need for native install or content walled garden.

Bookmarklet: Eyedropper

Paul Kinlan

This blog post introduces a bookmarklet utilizing the EyeDropper API for quickly grabbing color information in Chromium-based desktop browsers. The bookmarklet simplifies color selection by opening the eyedropper tool and returning the chosen color's sRGBHex value in an alert box. A link to a related blog post about creating a similar Chrome extension is also included.

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Eye-dropper in Chrome Devtools for quickly picking colors from the web page

Paul Kinlan

TIL: Use eye dropper directly on the web page.

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Traffic-lights with CSS

Paul Kinlan

I wanted a traffic light system on iwanttouse.com to visually represent feature support. Initially, I used simple CSS classes like .good (green), .ok (amber), and .bad (red), but this required clunky conditional logic to handle the color transitions based on percentage support. Paul Lewis suggested using HSL which allows for smooth transitions between red, amber, and green by adjusting the Hue value (0-359). Now, I can dynamically set the color using element.styles.color = \"hsla(\" + ((percentage / 100) * 90) + \", 50%, 50%)\"; which maps the percentage support to a Hue value between 0 (red) and 90 (green).

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