[dev] [commits] Horde branch master updated. 58ef1ae895b31312073ba91b81ad1b3dfc88c02f

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>
>> Quoting Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>>
>>>> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>>>
>>>>> Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> commit 58ef1ae895b31312073ba91b81ad1b3dfc88c02f
>>>>>> Author: Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at curecanti.org>
>>>>>> Date:   Thu Sep 8 22:43:50 2011 -0600
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Revert "Don't dim the popdown arrow."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This reverts commit 11edc61ae65d4ac47d683ead01ff4dd5cdbae405.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not sure why this was committed; without it, there is no visual
>>>>>> representation when hovering over the dropdown image.
>>>>>
>>>>> And why would that be necessary? The idea was to make the arrow  
>>>>> more visible, because in dimmed mode, the contrast to the  
>>>>> background is really low, at least in the Silver theme. This  
>>>>> could be one of the reasons why it was missed easily. And the  
>>>>> hover effect isn't really necessary, especially since we still  
>>>>> have it for the actual button. It's just eye-candy.
>>>>
>>>> Without it, I had no representation that the drop-down button did  
>>>> anything.  Quite honestly, I thought the button was broken  
>>>> yesterday when I updated.
>>>>
>>>> Not that it is determinative, but pretty much every other UI i  
>>>> have looked at has some kind of hover-effect on a popdown arrow  
>>>> like this.  So just like the original buttons: the theory is  
>>>> correct, it's just the graphical representation that may need  
>>>> further tweaking.
>>>
>>> My .02:
>>>
>>> I like having a hover-effect, but I think the default styling of  
>>> the popdown (and to be honest, the actual Reply/Forward/etc...  
>>> buttons as well) is way too light. To me, they look too much like  
>>> disabled form buttons. Maybe a darker color for the text, and  
>>> either darken (or widen?) the button borders on hover?
>>
>> I would agree that the default graphic is too light.
>
> I'm not sure what's wrong with FF, but with the most recent change,  
> the background of the buttons are changed with a delay after the  
> background of the actual A tag. This doesn't make sense because the  
> link element is extended to the borders of the button but yet the  
> button text and icon change the background first, then with a  
> notable delay, the remainders of the button background is changed.
> I already tried a few things to change this, to no avail.

I see this too (although not 100% reliably - it only happens some of  
the time).  Almost sure this is a FF bug.  Not sure what to do - don't  
have FF7 handy, so not sure if it is fixed there.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]