40795 - Allow transparent XUL's

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 113232

(Core :: XUL, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Brian Hunt]

Permit user to have a wholly transparent user interface; allow alpha
channels such that the elements of the XUL may have a "layover" effect.

This could permit very "cool" and processor-intensive effects, but I'm sure that
they would make an excellent selling point.

Comment 1

[Blake Ross]

confirming, but the day we get to this in this release is the day I sell my 
soul to the devil [in other words: don't bet on it]

Comment 2

[Blake Ross]

reassigning to XUL

Comment 3

[Peter Trudelle]

accepting.

Comment 4

[Eric Murphy]

Could this be done using PNGs and CSS? I mean, you can use PNGs for backgrounds 
and such for many elements. There is also the old <html:div> option.

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 114279 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Lancer]

I want transparents and 2D scrollbars 

Comment 7

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

*** Bug 114279 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Peter Trudelle]

Mass moving all of my open Nav/toolkit bugs to new owner.

Comment 9

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

could be duplicate of bug 28354

Comment 10

[Brian King [:kinger]]

or even a duplicate of bug 113232 ?

Comment 11

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

This is becoming important.  Apple's WWDC demos were great, but there's no
reason why Mozilla can't support similar such things for XUL apps and even web
pages.

Need a new bug owner here, I think.

/be

Comment 12

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Definitely a duplicate. This already works on GTK1, to the extent that GTK1
supports this. Dainis Jonitis had some code for Windows. Someone should ping him
to see how he's doing.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 113232 ***