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

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:

> 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.

It's reproducable reliably if you mouseout of the button and quickly  
mouseover it again. It's interesting that this doesn't seem to happen  
with the spellcheck button. The difference is that this button is  
manipulated after the page loading.

Jan.

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