394067 - Styled selects should retain Aqua "layout" but adopt author-specified colors

Status: NEW

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, enhancement)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Attachment: philippe's minimal testcase from bug 381647

Right now (post-bug 381647), when authors style selects with colors, they transform into really awful-looking Windows-y gfx boxes.  Instead of breaking completely with the platform experience, we should allow (at least for colors) the select to pick up the foreground (text) and background colors while remaining otherwise an Aqua select.  (It's possible there are other css properties that can be easily adapted to the general Aqua look, but colors are the most obvious.)

WebKit trunk/Safari 3 already does this.  I'll re-attach philippe's testcase and screenshot from bug 381647.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Attachment: screenshot of the testcase in WebKit

In bug 381647 comment 3, philippe also notes IE 7 win32 does something similar.

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Attachment: screenshot of the testcase in Minefield

Screenshot from Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007082804 Minefield/3.0a8pre