55676 - [outline]-moz-outline color is invisible with a dark background colored web page. (link,focus,pr0n)

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect, P2)

Description

[James Lariviere]

DESCRIPTION:

-moz-outline color is nearly invisible with a dark background-color in back of a
:link.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

click a link in the test case.

ACTUAL RESULTS:

-moz-outline color is dark.  test page is dark.  So, you do not see the outline.

EXPECTED RESULTS:

I think that the -moz-outline color should match the :link:active text color or
at least the color of the :link or default text in the web page.

In IE5, the outline seems to always be white when there is a dark background.

Comment 1

[James Lariviere]

Attachment: test case

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

We should use the 'invert' colour, which we can do once 'outline' is implemented
properly.

Comment 3

[James Lariviere]

Adding depends on properly implementing css2 outlines.

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

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...

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 73886 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Aaron Leventhal]

Adding fcc508 keyword. This is a crucial accessibility issue, outlined in FCC
Section 508 statutes. US Government agencies cannot legally purchase Mozilla
based products that contain this problem.

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

Bug 73884 (support 'invert' color for -moz-outline) is fixed now.  Resetting 
target milestone from future: is this easy to fix now, or does it depend on bug 
6647 (full support for CSS2 outline property)?

Comment 8

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Bug 73884 was reopened.

Reassigning to attinasi.  When bug 73884 is fixed, the patch for this bug is very 
simple. In html.css, just change the focus declaration to:

   *|*:-moz-any-link:focus {
      -moz-outline: 1px dotted invert;
   }

Comment 9

[Niels Aufbau]

I had to include duplicate bugs in my query to find this bug.  I'd suggest
adding "focus" and maybe "link" to the summary before porn surfers discover
Mozilla (due to mentions of the dom.disable_open_during_load pref on Slashdot),
wonder why they can't keep their place while middle-clicking links on
http://www.erotica-toon.com/, and file dups.

Comment 10

[Marc Attinasi]

uh, ok.

Comment 11

[rubydoo123]

setting this to m9.5, it looks like bug 73884 is getting in under 9.4 and 6647
may not need to be resolved to resolve this issue, see Pierre's patch suggestion
in htis bug.

Comment 12

[Marc Attinasi]

bug 73884 is FIXED (on trunk anyway). Marking this one fixed too.

Comment 13

[James Lariviere]

looks good :-) marking verified.

Comment 14

[Jesse Ruderman]

Continuation:
bug 111526, "link focus outline (invert) invisible on gray backgrounds".

Comment 15

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527381