Closed Bug 36001 Opened 25 years ago Closed 21 years ago

selection invisible over certain fg/bg combinations

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P3)

defect

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 56314
Future

People

(Reporter: mental, Assigned: mjudge)

Details

(Keywords: helpwanted)

From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14 i686; en-US; m14) BuildID: 2000041212 Mozilla appears to use the "system colors" for selections. On Unix, (at least with my configuration) it seems to assume that these are black-on-white. Bad, bad. I can't see what I'm selecting on most pages, or anywhere in the Mozilla UI. This seems to be a problem for anywhere the fg/bg colors match the selection fg/bg colors. I honestly liked the XOR/inversion selection highlighting better. It was more visible under most (really, all) circumstances. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. find a page with the same fg/bg selection colors as your system settings (or modify your system settings to match a page you're viewing) 2. select some text 3. scratch your head as you try to figure out what you've just selected Actual Results: I couldn't see what I had selected. Expected Results: I ought to be able to see what I selected. Either go back to XOR, or invert the selection colors in cases where they're too close to the underlying fg/bg color. Of course, you still can't (easily) do the latter over images, or other interesting compositing situations.
Good catch! I believe this will be fixed when we start using the CSS3 (?) colors, rather than the system colors.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Target Milestone: --- → M16
Hrm; how exactly will that fix it? Does CSS3 specify properties for the selection color? How would a reasonable default be determined (obviously a hard-coded default in the browser stylesheet would be faced with the same problems as using the system colors)?
[mjudge?]
bah. this will be fixed. xor had its own problems also unfortunately.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
m17
Target Milestone: M16 → M17
per beppe.
Target Milestone: M17 → Future
adding help wanted to the keywords
Keywords: helpwanted
*SPAM*: Changing the QA contact of all open/resolved Selection bugs from elig@netscape.com to BlakeR1234@aol.com. After the many great years of service Eli has given to Mozilla, it's time for him to move on; he has accepted a position at Eazel. We'll be sad to see him go, and I'll do my best to fill his spot...
QA Contact: elig → BlakeR1234
taking this one since it is selection, but leaving as future. anthonyd
Assignee: mjudge → anthonyd
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
--> mjudge
Assignee: anthonyd → mjudge
changing selection qa to tpreston.
QA Contact: blaker → tpreston
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56314 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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