Microsoft Edge Color Picker Gets a Modern UI; May be Available on Other Chromium Browsers

Jul. 16, 2019

TheChromium-based Microsoft Edgeis getting a whole range ofnew features and functionalities, including many modern design elements that were missing in its EdgeHTML-based predecessor. Believed to have been first spotted byWindows Latest, a new Microsoft Edge Canary build has now reportedly updated the functionality of the flag‘Web Platform Fluent Controls’, and added support for a modern color picker to replace the dated option.

The flag, which is available inbuild 77.0.209.0 or above,is disabled by default, but can be turned on manually by toggling the flag:‘Web Platform Fluent Controls’.A new commitin the Chromium Gerrit also suggests that Microsoft is looking to add the new feature to the Chromium codebase, which means a number of other browsers based on the platform will also benefit from the new design.Edge Modern Color Picker (Image via: Windows Latest)

According to Microsoft engineer Sanket Joshi:“This change is the first of several to introduce (behind the form controls refresh flag) a new popup-based color picker to power the color control … The color picker is compromised of three main parts: a visual color picker to allow visual selection of colors, a manual color picker to allow numeric selection of colors, and submission controls to save/discard new color selections”.Edge Old Color Picker (Image via: Windows Latest)

In case you don’t know it already, Microsoft has been working on a new Chromium-based version of the Edge browser, ditching its own proprietary EdgeHTML engine. The company recently added a bunch of new features to the software, including a full-blown IE Mode, the ability to block annoying autoplaying media, new text preference options in the Reader View, and more.

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