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Bug 32818
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 22 years ago
Link Outlines (a la Microsoft IE) - pref to disable
Categories
(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, enhancement, P4)
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VERIFIED
WONTFIX
Future
People
(Reporter: endah, Assigned: dbaron)
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Details
(Whiteboard: WONTFIX?)
Ever since the 'link outlines' were introduced into the mozilla browser project (whereby, on clicking on a link - it is outlined with a dotted line), they have not functioned properly (as indicated by existing filed bugs). The original Netscape Browser works beautifully without outlining links. I would have thought that such an addition interferes with w3c standardisation. With all the work put into achieving a consistent interface for Mozilla on any platform (i.e. making work easy for designers) I would have thought there would have been a drive to put power into the hands of the designer. But to enforce a law of outlining links undoes the usefulness of CSS control over visited-links... and many other dynamic HTML possibilities. Surely the designer is crippled? There was a day recently when I downloaded the latest build of mozilla and it ran without link outlines... this was a beautiful day.
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Comment 1•24 years ago
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If you want to suggest that outlines not be drawn, use the CSS rule :link:focus, :visited:focus { outline: none; } This is a feature. Being able to navigate links by the keyboard is a good thing. People are working on the outline bugs...
Target Milestone: ---
I thought that it might be the case that this is intended as a feature - but shouldn't there be an option to switch it off in general? I was looking through the preferences and couldn't find an existing option to disable it - is there one available in a configuration file somewhere perhaps?
Comment 3•24 years ago
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What you are asking for, then, is an enhancement that is non-trivial. The only way to do this without adding overhead to all event processing would be to add in, based on a pref, the CSS rule given by dbaron@fas.harvard.edu prior to layout, for every page. Changing Severity to "Enhancement" and passing to the "Style System" Component.
Assignee: cbegle → pierre
Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: Browser-General → Style System
QA Contact: asadotzler → chrisd
Summary: Link Outlines (a la Microsoft IE) - should be removed → Link Outlines (a la Microsoft IE) - pref to disable
Comment 4•24 years ago
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You will be certainly happy to learn that the latest builds don't outline links anymore. Problem: I don't know if it is by design or if something got broken in the outlines. I checked html.css and :link:focus still shows "outline: 1px dotted black". Reassigned to rods to see if he has an explanation. However, I'm afraid your request for a pref to control the outline will be marked "Later".
Assignee: pierre → rods
Comment 5•24 years ago
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I broke them on purpose and I am trying to get something working for beta2 without fully implementing outline.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → ASSIGNED
Ever confirmed: true
Comment 6•24 years ago
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Actually I didn't break them, I didn't check in what I thought I did. So I don't know why they don't work.
Comment 10•24 years ago
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Marking remind. This will not make release 1.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → REMIND
Target Milestone: M17 → M20
Comment 11•24 years ago
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Netscape's standard compliance QA team reorganised itself once again, so taking remaining non-tables style bugs. Sorry about the spam. I tried to get this done directly at the database level, but apparently that is "not easy because of the shadow db", "plus it screws up the audit trail", so no can do...
QA Contact: chrisd → ian
Comment 12•23 years ago
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Reopening and moving to Future -- REMIND is deprecated.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: REMIND → ---
Whiteboard: [Hixie-PF]
Target Milestone: --- → Future
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Updated•23 years ago
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Priority: P3 → P4
Comment 14•22 years ago
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*** Bug 50288 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15•22 years ago
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I'm highly tempted to WONTFIX this. We are already have way too many prefs and you can already do this using userContent.css.
Whiteboard: [Hixie-PF] → WONTFIX?
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Comment 16•22 years ago
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Agreed.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago → 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Comment 18•22 years ago
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See also bug 63962, "Focused appearance prefs are not exposed".
Comment 19•22 years ago
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See also bug 190550, "Option to disable link outlines when using mouse".
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