220125 - Wrong behaviour and look of Drop-Down lists in Geckos layout engine (XP themed)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Win32, defect)

Description

[Jan Lange]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20030923

The behaviour and the look of the Drop-Down control when XP is themed. The
control aren't viewed in the original Windows XP Luna Style and the behaviour
differs in that way when I select an item.

To see exactly what I am mean, look at the following page:
http://www.extreme-webhosting.de/drop-down-list/drop-down-behavior.htm

I have made some Screenshots of the same demo-website in the Internet Explorer
and also in the newest Mozilla Nightly.

Under other is the IE look/behaviour the same that all other Windows programs
have. Even Mozilla or Firebird use in the GUI the original Windows XP Styles.

This bug is also reproduced when I used third party Themes instead of Luna.
example "Metallic Shades"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to any Website that use the original(without css) drop-down list when XP
is themed and use it.



Expected Results:  
The original behavior and look of Windows XP like in the Internet Explorer or
other programs.

HTML Code to test:
<form name="form1" id="form1" method="post" action="">
  <select name="select">
    <option>test1</option>
    <option>test2</option>

    <option>test3</option>
  </select>
</form>

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 220121 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Jan Lange]

This Bug is also present in the new Firebird 0.7!

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Over to the nsITheme folks, I guess.  Nothing we can do in core layout with the
windows styles stuff....

Comment 4

[Jan Lange]

Why cannot implement the Controls that are OS dependend nativ for every OS? So
that on every Plattform the original controls were used, instead of wrong
self-made "Animations" ??

For only an handfull platforms it shouldn't do much more work to program, i think.

Much of my Friends don't use Mozilla or Firebird only because they don't like
the style and behavior of all the Controls used in an HTML site, because they
don't work and "feel" like Windows.

Comment 5

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This bug has been buried in the graveyard and has not been updated in over 5 years. It is probably safe to assume that it will never be fixed, so resolving as WONTFIX.

[Mass-change filter: graveyard-wontfix-2014-09-24]