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.
Mar27
at 1:54 am (Quote ↓)
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).
at 9:56 am (Quote ↓)
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.
at 7:05 pm (Quote ↓)
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!
at 2:02 pm (Quote ↓)
Neat! Now the only colered elements in the page are the scrollbars.