This was inspired by a javascript I had seen somewhere once, and I found it quite usefull. So as a service to all non-javascript users (namely me) I wrote this perl version.

So to the point, it works! but... other than the non use of CGI.pm I think it still could be improved a bit.. please try it out on your machine or visit this demo so you can get the whole picture.

Make sure you use the updated code below, and not the first version.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! 


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my @nums = qw/00 20 40 60 80 A0 C0 FF/;
my $f=0;
my $g=0;
my $h=0;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print '<html><head><title>Web-Safe Colors</title><head>';
print '<body><table align=center border=0><tr><td>';

while($f<8) {
$g=0;
$h=0;
print '<table width=100% border=1 cellpadding=5>';
 while ($g<8){
 $h=0;
 print "<tr>\n";
  while ($h<8){
                print "<td align=center bgcolor=\"\#$nums[$f]$nums[$g]
+$nums[$h]\">"; 
                print "<font color=\"\#$nums[7-$f]$nums[7-$g]$nums[7-$
+h]\">";        
                print "$nums[$f]$nums[$g]$nums[$h]<\/font><\/td> ";   
+          

                $h+=1;   }
 print '</tr>';
 $g+=1;
 }
print "<\/table>\n<p>";
$f+=1;
}
print '</td></tr></table></body></html>';

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I plan to rewrite it using CGI as soon as I learn CGI.

In reply to Web-Safe Color Chart by Zecho

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