Closed Bug 260879 Opened 20 years ago Closed 17 years ago

download controls should be buttons, not links

Categories

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

defect
Not set
trivial

Tracking

()

VERIFIED FIXED
mozilla1.9alpha8

People

(Reporter: k, Assigned: sdwilsh)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [p-safari])

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

The cancel, pause, open & remove controls for each download should be buttons,
not links. Links are web page controls and have no place in the application
unless they load a URL.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start a download
2. Look at the controls

Actual Results:  
controls are links

Expected Results:  
controls are buttons
Confirming bug based on Windows UI guidelines:

"In Web-style applications, you can include both hyperlinks and command buttons
in your interface. As a general rule, use hyperlinks for navigating to locations
and buttons for carrying out actions."

Design Specifications and Guidelines -> Window Management -> Web-Application
Interface
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwue/html/ch10e.asp

Firefox is *not* a web application, it's an application that runs locally.
Therefore, it should use standard application widgets (i.e. buttons in this case).

Prog.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
*** Bug 285852 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Blocks: 286221
Blocks: 260323
No longer blocks: 260323
*** Bug 340334 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Blocks: 260323
No longer blocks: 286221
QA Contact: ali → download.manager
Assignee: bugs → nobody
OS: Windows 2000 → All
Hardware: PC → All
Whiteboard: [p-safari]
Assignee: nobody → sdwilsh
Depends on: 388517
Target Milestone: --- → Firefox 3 M8
I *really* don't think a litmus test is needed for this.
Flags: in-litmus? → in-litmus-
Fixed by Bug 388517.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Flags: in-testsuite-
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Yeah, this is fine on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007081304 Minefield/3.0a8pre and Linux/Windows XP SP2/Vista OSs; I'll be spinning off any/all separate bugs for specific cases (tooltips/functions/appearance, etc.).

Verified FIXED
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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