19988 - Default background color should not be #FFF

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[nejohnson]

#FFF, otherwise known as the otherwise known as the brightest white available,
should not be used as a default background color for widgets appearing on a CRT.

For many, it is uncomfortable to view large areas filled mainly with this color.
It is never necessary to use this color as the default background color for a
widget.

Comment 1

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

This is not an Architecture (API, interface) bug.

/be

Comment 2

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

German, can you rule and pass on to a hacker (pavlov?), or fix yourself?
Thanks,

/be

Comment 3

[Dawn Endico]

nejohnson, what browser did you use to report this bug? which version?

Comment 4

[german]

Actually #FFFFFF is used as windows background color for the default skin.
Normally dialog type widgets are not used in a document window. If you see
dialog windows or widgets that have the white background color, those need to be
assigned class="dialog" anyway, which sets their background color to #CCCCCC
(gray). Toolbars also have specific classes for specific purposes/designs.
Please file specific bugs for the dialogs that have this problem. Thanks.

Comment 5

[nejohnson]

This report applies to the default skin, as well as any additional elements that
have #FFF as the default background color.  So far as I know, only the default
skin exhibits this.  If this is true, and this report can be changed to
specifically address the default skin, then that should be done.  If multiple
parts exhibit this fault, then User Experience bugs should be filed for each of
those parts and this report should depend on those other reports.

Comment 6

[german]

TBD past beta...

Comment 7

[leger]

Moving all UE/UI bugs to new component: User Interface: Design Feedback
UE/UI component will be deleted.

Comment 8

[kevin arnold]

I definately agree.  I just started up M13 and my entire "My Panels" and
Preferences box is white on white because M13 uses the color I selected for
Window Text, but overrides the color I selected for Window Background in
Windows.  This is quite annoying since it forces me to change my windows colors
(and restart Mozilla since the Mozilla doesn't pick up the changes immediately
like other apps do).  The work around is to change the preferences to not use
windows colors, but obviously I can't do this while the preferences box is white
on white.

Either Mozilla should use all of the windows colors, or none of them.

Comment 9

[german]

marking worksforme, this has been corrected a while ago, it is #CCCCCC for the 
corssplatform modern skin, and platform specific for the classic skin.

Comment 10

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Chaning the qa contact on these bugs to me. MPT will be moving to the 
owner of this component shortly. I would like to thank him for all his hard 
work as he moves roles in mozilla.org...Yada, Yada, Yada...

Comment 11

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by ffxbld-merge:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/38322a053e34
[fenix] For https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/19988 - Part 1: Move RecentTabsListFeature into recenttabs package
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/ebdbbbb82d07
[fenix] For https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/19988 - Part 2: Load tab icon from BrowserIcons cache if needed for the recent tab