Dec 14, 2014

What Color Is It?

While swiping away at my tablet, like a madman with my morning cup-o-joe, I came across this novelty of a site:  http://whatcolourisit.scn9a.org/.


The idea is simple... take the hour, minute, and second of the current time and use those values combined as the page background's hex color (#hhmmss).

Admittedly, there's not a lot of business purpose here, but it can be a good development exercise to use as an introduction to re-rendering page components using actionPollers and a few various Visualforce functions.

Can it be done?  With the exception of the minimal polling time being 5 seconds, you know it! 

Here's the end result:



Here's the Visualforce page: