673297 - Text selection arrows are not native

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

The arrows used to select some text in a page looks native on my phone (Nexus S, so Android 2.3) but are far from that on my tablet (Android 3.1 I believe).
I guess that the arrows appearance is hard coded to look like the ones in Android 2.3. Can't we use the applied theme instead?

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to comment #0)

> I guess that the arrows appearance is hard coded to look like the ones in
> Android 2.3. Can't we use the applied theme instead?

No, we can't. We can only supply renderings with our own themes (we have 3 currently)

Comment 2

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> 
> > I guess that the arrows appearance is hard coded to look like the ones in
> > Android 2.3. Can't we use the applied theme instead?
> 
> No, we can't. We can only supply renderings with our own themes (we have 3
> currently)

What do you mean? Our code currently doesn't allow us to use to do that? or it's just technically impossible.

Comment 3

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Android does not, to my knowledge, give us access to the images.

Comment 4

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Android does not, to my knowledge, give us access to the images.

On Opera Mobile, it seems to work as expected.
If Android doesn't let us access to the images, can't we at least do a runtime check and show different arrows?

Comment 5

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Mass bug change to replace various 'parity' whiteboard flags with the new canonical keywords. (See bug 1443764 comment 13.)

Comment 6

[BMO Automation]

Closing all opened bug in a graveyard component