Comments on: Firefox Mac OS X Native Form Controls Preview 2

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 22 May 2007 20:12:57 +0000

First off, great work. It’s definitely fixing a major deficiency in Firefox on the Mac side.

That being said, one thing I’ve noticed is that the aqua buttons don’t look quite right, at least when compared to Safari or Camino. For instance, at google.com, the button text as displayed Firefox is a little bit too big, and the button endcaps have a different radius or something – they look more streamlined than in Safari or Camino, and thus not quite right.

By: David

David — Mon, 21 May 2007 08:49:31 +0000

Smokey & Philippe, thanks for the info. I’m actually running Shiira v1.2.3 on webkit so having a preview of the form controls. Is there some cross fertilization to Camino on these widgets?

By: Brandon Sharitt

Brandon Sharitt — Mon, 21 May 2007 01:53:13 +0000

Ah, I see. It would be nice to see the little bugs worked out in the widget rendering. It looks like my next browser will be a showdown between Safari in Leopard or Firefox 3.0. For now I guess I’ll just have to settle with being dissapointed with the state of Mac web browsers in general.

By: Philippe

Philippe — Sun, 20 May 2007 23:52:07 +0000

1. Thanks Josh for the PPC build. Getting very close, indeed.

2. @ David. The buttons in your screenshot are styled with some background-color and border. The Minefield build applies that styling where-as Safari completely ignores all author styling on buttons. This will change in future versions of Safari, though (and the nightly builds of WebKit already style the form controls).

By: Smokey Ardisson

Smokey Ardisson — Sun, 20 May 2007 18:22:11 +0000

David, that’s because some CSS-specified color (in that case grey) is painting on top of the Aqua select widget; Josh has a bug open on that.

I believe the inability to customize the toolbar is also a known bug (unrelated to this build).

By: Stuart Morgan

Stuart Morgan — Sun, 20 May 2007 15:59:14 +0000

Those builds are using Camino’s widget implementation in Firefox, which means they inherit all of Camino’s widget issues (messed up focus rings, lack of almost any styleablity, weird conflicts with certain CSS, etc.). The new code is taking a lot of rough edges off of Camino’s widgets.

By: Brandon Sharitt

Brandon Sharitt — Sun, 20 May 2007 10:37:12 +0000

How are the newer native form patches different that the Aquaform widget builds over at beatnikpad.com?

By: David

David — Sun, 20 May 2007 09:45:05 +0000

Trying out your build and thought I would offer a little feedback

- I can’t Customize the Toolbar

- Buttons render differently from Safari in that the ‘reflection’ is lost over the button content – example here: http://pimpmyshiira.com/minefield-safari.png

Cheers