87567 - Better-looking tabs for the userprefs.cgi page

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I had an idea how to do something a little prettier with the tabs on the 
userprefs.cgi page...  demo is at the above URL.

I'll attach a diff shortly that actually incorporates it into userprefs.cgi

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Attachment: Patch

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Attachment: Patch v2

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Patch v2 takes into account that not everyone uses a white background.  Oops :)

Comment 4

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Do we really want to use all those tables?  :(

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This certainly seems overkill. I suggest CSS as an easier way to do it :-)

Gerv

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

How would you create something like that with CSS?  enlighten me :)

Comment 7

[GavinS]

Attachment: A mozilla-specific CSS tabs example

Comment 8

[GavinS]

The html I just attached is not really a suggestion for Bugzilla inclusion -- as
it uses the Mozilla -moz-border-radius CSS property, and it looks a bit pants
with any other browser, but it is an example of how CSS could, one day, brighten
up the tabs.

CSS3 should provide a standard border-radius property.

Comment 9

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

We are currently trying to wrap up Bugzilla 2.16.  We are now close enough to
release time that anything that wasn't already ranked at P1 isn't going to make
the cut.  Thus this is being retargetted at 2.18.  If you strongly disagree with
this retargetting, please comment, however, be aware that we only have about 2
weeks left to review and test anything at this point, and we intend to devote
this time to the remaining bugs that were designated as release blockers.

Comment 10

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 117060 has somewhat improved tabs. Now that I've spotted this bug, I'll take
inspiration from it :-)

Gerv

Comment 11

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

So this patch isn't templatised, so can't be used as-is. I think this is better
as a post-templatisation enhancement - my tabs, poor as they are, will do for now.

Gerv

Comment 12

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

This was fixed by the patch on bug 117060

Comment 13

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Well, as long as people are happy with my poor effort :-)

Gerv

Comment 14

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I was the reporter on this bug, I'm happy. :-)

If anyone else isn't, feel free to reopen though.