Closed
Bug 36001
Opened 25 years ago
Closed 21 years ago
selection invisible over certain fg/bg combinations
Categories
(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P3)
Core
DOM: Selection
Tracking
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Future
People
(Reporter: mental, Assigned: mjudge)
Details
(Keywords: helpwanted)
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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.
Comment 1•25 years ago
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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
Updated•25 years ago
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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)?
Comment 3•25 years ago
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[mjudge?]
bah. this will be fixed. xor had its own problems also unfortunately.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Comment 8•24 years ago
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*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
Comment 12•21 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56314 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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