Here’s something I worked on for a few hours just to amuse myself. I’d develop it further, but I can’t see how this has any sort of practical use (also note the caveats at the top of the script). So here it is: a web page desaturator. Takes all colors in linked stylesheets and turns them into grayscale versions. Here’s a demo using a page from the Prototype site. Firefox only.
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Hi Andrew,
Can’t click the button on Firefox.
Funny you worked on that today, I was just thinking about it too, while loging out of campfire this afternoon (which uses the same effect).
That’s really really cool! I suspect that this could also be quite useful for performing color-blind tests on a site. If this were in IE, you could probably use an Image Filter to change how images look too.
I think that could work well for lightboxes/modals, where you could desaturate everything behind to help make the rest of the page look “disabled” (a bit like how Windows XP behaves as you shut down). Nice work!
Neat! Now the only colered elements in the page are the scrollbars.