Simple JavaScript code is invoked when a color is selected and the color of the background is changed accordingly. Firefox 3.6’s “Color Picker” Firefox 3.6 does not support the color picker ...

This charming behind-the-scenes story reveals how Apple’s whimsical crayon color picker was born from one engineer’s creative impulse—and how hiding poetry in the code nearly ended his career.

Microsoft this week will release a new color picker utility for PowerToys, the Windows 95 power-user feature it rebooted as an open-source project for Windows 10 last year. The project behind ...