89262 - URLs in Element Properties windows are the wrong color

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Themes, defect, P5)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

To reproduce:
1.  Open the context menu for a link or image in a Web page, and choose
    `Properties'.
2.  Look at the URL for the element, as displayed in the Properties window.

What you see:
*   Pale lavender text with a mouseover effect.

What you should see:
*   Black text with no mouseover effect.

Problem occurs with:
*   build 2001070308, Mac OS 9.1

Problem does not occur with:
*   Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows

Comment 1

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Why shouldn't links look like links? Isn't that rule #1 in UI design: "make 
things look like what they are" (hrm, or something like that :) )

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

Strictly speaking this is a Themes issue.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

You can click on them and change the underlying Navigator window to that URL. 
Therefore they are links. Therefore, they should look like links. 

(As Neil says, they are styled by the theme.)

Gerv

Comment 4

[timeless]

i'm not opposed to resolution: wontfix.

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

But they don't look like my links, which I specified to be hot pink with no
underline.  Actually, they don't even look like the typical default appearance
of links (blue, underlined, red on :active).

I think these should just be nice, clean, readonly textboxes.  Yeah, the user
could just copy the link text from the page. So what?

I'm still undecided what to do about Properties.  Honestly, all I know is that I
open it up and close my eyes and try to imagine seeing it in a Microsoft
application. I can't.

Comment 6

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Ok, I see your point. The question is, does this apply to all links in the 
modern skin or just the links in the properites window. If all: this is a skin 
issue. If just the properties window: why?

Comment 7

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

> Why shouldn't links look like links?

Because if (for example) your chrome color (as set in the Display control panel 
on Windows) is pale blue, your default HTML background color is white, and your 
default HTML link color is pale blue, the URLs in the Properties window will 
become invisible.

Should they be underlined like links? Sure, because consistency is important. 
Should they be colored like links? No, because ensuring that they are visible
*at all* is more important than consistency.

No, this problem doesn't apply just to the Properties window (the odious 
mouseovers in the Personal Toolbar have the same problem), but the Properties 
window is the only one where I've seen this weird shade of pale lavender.

Comment 8

[Blake Ross]

-->sicking

Comment 9

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

hot potato! This is a theming problem, the properties window just uses 
the .link-text class

Comment 10

[piers]

Isn't this fixed? (the link addresses aren't links anymore)

Comment 11

[Neil Marshall]

Marking invalid now that the element properties window doesn't display url's as
links.