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--- "Joshua A. Andler" <joshua@...233...> wrote:
So your *always* seems like it may be limited to the non industry standard software.
-Josh
If my original response seemed a bit crisp, I apologize for that -- it wasn't intended to be. But I beg to differ with some of the specifics of your, ah, equally crisp retort. Adobe refers to the tool as a Swatches *palette*:
http://www.adobe.com/education/webtech/CS/unit_graphics1/icb_color.htm
(Figure 5-5.6)
Now, you can make a very good case for *not* calling it a palette. "Palette" is also used to refer to how many colors are associated with an image (i.e., a gif can have up to a 256-color palette) and this term is not associated with UI elements at all. But if we're talking about industry standards, "Color Palette" is used by Windows, KDE and Gnome (don't know about Apple) and the term "palette" is *still* used by Adobe and Macromedia even though they've replaced "color" with "swatches."
Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@...537...)