Closed
Bug 91708
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 23 years ago
Text selection colors should be inverse
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)
SeaMonkey
General
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: bruppel1, Assigned: mpt)
Details
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2+) Gecko/20010719 BuildID: 2001071903 Right now it seems that when one drags to select text, the result is a box with the selected text in white and the background in black (although sometimes the background is gray, esp if the page no longer has focus, but I've seen it other times too). This is okay, except when the page already has white text on a black background as the norm. This makes it tough to see what you've selected. NS4.x would use inverse colors of the selected text and background. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.select text on a page with white text on a black background Actual Results: You can't see the selection because it is set to white on black Expected Results: The colors should be inversed--black on white I'm surprised I couldn't find a dup, and please forgive me if I missed it.
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Assignee: asa → mpt
Component: Browser-General → User Interface Design
QA Contact: doronr → zach
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Comment 2•24 years ago
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On Windows any platform, this is very easy to duplicate.. even on this page. Simply go to your Control Panel, Display Properties, Appearance Tab, and choose the "Selected Items" item in the select box below. Change the appearance so that the text is black and the background is set to white. Select any text on this page. You will not see what you are selecting. I think I've seen this bug before... searching.
Comment 3•23 years ago
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Marking NEW for now and over to selection. Kick back if I'm wrong.
Assignee: mpt → mjudge
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: User Interface Design → Selection
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: zach → tpreston
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Comment 4•23 years ago
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Kicking back, then. Most pages have dark text on a light background. If text selection was made inverse, people would whine -- especially since selecting text on a white-on-black page is an easy way of temporarily turning it into dark-on-light and making it easy to read. Possible ideas for a solution: * detect whether the selection color is reasonably similar to the background color, and invert only in that case; * include a 1px border (or maybe a bevel, like in Tk) around the selection, so you can see it even if the background is the same color.
Assignee: mjudge → mpt
Component: Selection → User Interface Design
OS: Windows 2000 → All
QA Contact: tpreston → zach
Hardware: PC → All
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Comment 5•23 years ago
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You're right, selection shouldn't be inverse, it should just be dark / light. Change the summary?
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Comment 6•23 years ago
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okay, I just found something out that may have been cause for confusion: on win32 text selection color follows system settings. On my system I set it to white/black, so on pages with white text on black background, selected areas can't be seen. Perhaps moz should detect dark backgrounds and inverse the user-specified colors (making it black text on white background automatically, in my case). This seems to be what IE5.5 does.
Comment 7•23 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56314 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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