I couldn't really figure out how to bundle the colorpicker as an
extension (I went through the docs here:
http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/experimental.devtools.panels...,
but the callback seems to expect a JSON like object to create a tree,
not arbitrary HTML).  I wouldn't mind spending a little more time
trying to bundle the colorpicker into dev tools if that was something
people were interested in.

Anyhow, the colorpicker (http://bgrins.github.com/spectrum/) is sort
of a polyfill for input type='color' so it might be able to drop in as
a temporary replacement until type="color" comes in.  You *should*
just be able to switch <input type='spectrum' /> in the markup to
<input type='color' />.  Also, I'm not sure about what features will
be available with the native control, but you can add a pallet of
colors to spectrum (so it would be pretty easy to have all the colors
already used in the page available at the bottom for easy reuse).  The
things that are obstacles to doing that are that it uses jQuery (which
may not be that hard to drop if it only had to target Chrome) and
custom color parsing (but I have already built a version that swaps
the parsing out with WebInspector.Color).

Thanks,
Brian

On Oct 11, 1:47 pm, Peter Beverloo <pe...@chromium.org> wrote: