137350 - GrayText should have ThreeDHighlight offset in Windows

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 69710

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Bamm Gabriana]

The style "color: GrayText;" used to specify disabled text in user
interfaces should have a white dropshadow in Windows platforms.

This is to be consistent with the look of native Win32 apps in which
all disabled text in UI have white dropshadows.

Comment 1

[Bamm Gabriana]

Attachment: Example of disabled text in Netscape 4.

Here is how disabled text looks in native Win32 apps. This screenshot
is taken from Netscape Communicator 4.79 under Windows 98SE.

Comment 2

[Bamm Gabriana]

Attachment: Example of disabled text in Mozilla 2002041203.

This is how it looks in Mozilla. The plain gray letters is inconsistent
with the way this is displayed in other Win32 applications.

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

This is not a bug with GrayText. In CSS GrayText cannot also include a drop
shadow (and it definitely has nothing to do with the DOM). Sending to XPToolkit.

Comment 4

[Sébastien Desvignes]

Very similar to bug 69710.

Comment 5

[Bamm Gabriana]

I disagree with comment #3. The CSS specification for GrayText is a system color
representing disabled text. Therefore it must be rendered the way the platform
renders disabled text. In Windows, this means a ThreeDShadow and a
ThreeDHighlight, with the latter offset 1 pixel to the right and bottom.

Comment 6

[[e-mail]]

If this turns out not to be a dup then it depends on bug 10713.

Comment 7

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> The CSS specification for GrayText is a system
> color
> representing disabled text. Therefore it must be rendered the way the platform
> renders disabled text. In Windows, this means a ThreeDShadow and a
> ThreeDHighlight, with the latter offset 1 pixel to the right and bottom.

No, this is technically wrong. A CSS color is only a color, not a decoration.