30316 - ALL-UPPERCASE SEARCH BUTTON IS HARD TO READ, LOOKS UGLY (LIKE THIS TEXT)

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Search, defect, P3)

Description

[Eli Goldberg]

The "Search" button on Win32/Linux is now in all-caps.

All upper-case text is harder to read, and more likely to be ignored, than
mixed-case text, since it lacks word-shapes that facilitate legibility, as
explained in any typography 101 class.

Moreso, the only use of all-caps that I've seen used by trained designers is
when it's used sparing to contrast with non-all caps text in a very different
typeface. Since we don't use any other typefaces in our UI, this reason
shouldn't apply.

If you want the Search button to stand out, may I suggest coming up with a more
effective and visually savvy means of expressing it?

Comment 1

[Eli Goldberg]

*** Bug 30940 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[german]

Thanks for this feedback. We are currently testing this. This is one of the
proposals in order to make users more familiar with the new search URL bar feature.
BTW as any typography 102 class goes on to explain, the legibility is negatively
affected only when uppercase is used within larger amounts of body text. Here we
use it for one single word which is more meant to be a glyph rather than a
textual expression.
Bu as said earlier we are still tweaking these things and looking at alternatives.
Accepting bug for later resolution

Comment 3

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

I DON'T BELIEVE IT! FIRST THE BUTTON USED ALL CAPS, NOW IT USES ALL CAPS AND *
BOLD*. DO WE REALLY BELIEVE THAT USERS ARE STUPID, OR IS THAT JUST THE IMPRESSION 
WE WISH TO PROMOTE?

Comment 4

[Eli Goldberg]

U BETTR SHUT UP IF U WANT 2 KEEP UR ELITE ACCESS ON MY BBS, BUDDY!

;)

Comment 5

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

lol

fix checked in

Comment 6

[Claudius Gayle]

fixed how? I wasn't aware we'd resolved the issue.

Moreover, there are two search buttons. One in the Url bar and one in the sidepanel. I believe when Mr. Elig wrote the bug he was 
referring to the url button.

My only requirement is that they both be exactly the same. (once the style issue is resolved)

Comment 7

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

doh

commercial build is using a separate DTD apparently. 

Comment 8

[shuang (gone)]

Move to M20 for later polish.

Comment 9

[german]

I assume this was corrected a while ago, so marking fixed.

Comment 10

[Claudius Gayle]

VERIFIED Fixed 2000083008 builds