New stable release with improved color picker
By David Håsätherhzr. Friday, May 11, 2012 12:42:56 PM
Today's new release on the Opera Dragonfly stable branch includes some major improvements to our color picker. It now opens next to the color being edited, instead of being a floating window. The interface itself has been made lighter, with a smaller size and a gray background. The alpha value is now always available, while previously it only appeared when the original color being edited was specified as rgba or hsla. The palette is available in the bottom left corner and colors can now be added and removed directly from here.
The interaction has also been improved. Scrolling with the mousewheel over the color space will now move the pointer towards or away from the cursor depending on the direction. This makes it easy to blend colors between two points. OK and Cancel buttons have been added, based on user feedback.
But it's not all just about the colors. In this release, we also improved inspection of getters. They will now be presented as getter in italic, and clicking this text will evaluate the getter and show the according value.
In the Network panel, we've updated the UA presets for global header overrides in the options tab to reflect some of the latest browers. And, as a final tweak for this build, Opera Dragonfly will now use the system's application font for its interface elements.


IllusionMH109th # Friday, May 11, 2012 2:42:00 PM
Waiting for them in the experimental branch
Thiemo # Friday, May 11, 2012 2:54:43 PM
Martin KadlecBS-Harou # Friday, May 11, 2012 4:52:49 PM
Originally posted by 109th:
Same here
Çağlar Yeşilyurtgreench # Friday, May 11, 2012 5:23:19 PM
Constantine Vesnac69 # Friday, May 11, 2012 7:15:17 PM
Originally posted by 109th:
+1
Ayrton Nadgelayrtonnadgel # Saturday, May 12, 2012 11:04:37 AM
Originally posted by 109th:
+1
Unregistered user # Saturday, May 12, 2012 11:39:37 AM
MaximSailorMax # Saturday, May 12, 2012 6:35:11 PM
Opera 12 b1406
update: my mistake. Looks like I have not latest version...
Hope new version under windows will have "Cancel" button at right
RobMintsoft # Sunday, May 13, 2012 9:38:23 AM
Originally posted by 109th:
+1
ПавелGemorroj # Monday, May 14, 2012 6:29:06 AM
Originally posted by 109th:
+1
Christian Krebsaleto # Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:46:27 AM
JanGen # Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:41:33 AM
Still there is the HSV != HSL typo bug.
Colorpicker showing HSL but it's calling it HSV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV
DFL-2718
Christian Krebsaleto # Thursday, May 17, 2012 10:29:42 PM
Originally posted by JanGen:
The color picker shows HSV, e.g. red is 0, 100%, 100%, not 0, 100%, 50%. Or you are asking that we show HSL instead? I think HSV is better, in HSL you would get much more white, black and gray values, a bit less intuitive to pick a color. But you're right, in CSS it is HSL.
JanGen # Friday, May 18, 2012 2:16:02 PM
Sorry it's my mistake, I must have looked wrong, cause I saw the same values in the colorpicker, as in the css rules, but I checked again and they differ.
There is something very intuitive in HSL: set the color, set the saturation and set the lightness. That's only changing one parameter to make a color darker or lighter. So rationally i would prefer HSL but I think you're right that visually you would prefer HSV, so that choice is arbitrary.
BTW when I enter h:0 s:100, v:0, then tab away and then go back and change v:100, s is changed automatically to 0.
Is that a bug?
Christian Krebsaleto # Saturday, May 19, 2012 10:36:05 AM
If you set v to 0 then s is basically undefined, so it gets set to 0 too. It is a small bug that s is not updated instantly to 0.