Closed Bug 149078 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Make native styles on form controls

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement)

x86
Windows XP
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 169373

People

(Reporter: rdm, Assigned: john)

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Details

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc3)
Gecko/20020523
BuildID:    2002052306

Mozilla doesn't enable Windows XP visual styles on web site buttons and
controls. For example, in the page at www.google.com, the buttons "Google
Search" and "I'm Feeling Lucky" are not shown using Windows XP visual styles.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Simply load a web page that shows buttons or controls, for example
http://www.google.com.

Actual Results:  The web page is displayed correctly, but buttons and controls
are shown without the use of visual styles.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should have loaded the corresponding web sites
enabling visual styles on buttons and controls.

This "bug" occurs with both themes (classic and modern), and makes web sites
look quite odd.
Component->HTML Form Controls & Severity->Enhancement -- I searched for a
duplicate of this bug, but didn't find one.  Because Windows XP visual styles
are achieved using windowed controls, I suspect that mozilla will never support
them.  Mozilla has its own system of styling these items, using CSS and skins. 
I recommend that this should be marked WONTFIX, but others know more than I do
about the internals of the rendering engine and whether WinXP native visual
styles would be impossible to support.

More information about visual styles can be found at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/xptheming.asp
Assignee: Matti → jkeiser
Severity: normal → enhancement
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Browser-General → HTML Form Controls
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: imajes-qa → tpreston
I know we created this nsITheme stuff a while back; we could likely use or
mimick what they are doing.  This is a priority for layout.  I suspect there is
a dup of this bug somewhere, though--I just can't find it.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Summary: visual styles on buttons and controls not enabled → Make native styles on form controls
This has been fixed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169373 ***
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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