Comments on: Latest Mac OS X Firefox Nightly Build has Native Form Controls

By: godavemon

godavemon — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:09:50 +0000

Josh, looks pretty cool. Too bad I hear C Smith doesn’t use the internet, she only plays Xbox.

By: Smokey Ardisson

Smokey Ardisson — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:18:33 +0000

Chris, the Dictionary pop-up while hovering depends on accessibility support; someone was working on Mac accessibility support for Gecko last summer, but no work has happened lately. (Note also that the “new” “native widgets” are not “native” in the sense most Mac programmers use; the widgets are instead “native themed,” which means they’re drawn with HITheme rather than being NSButtons and the like directly. Or, put another way, they’re only “native” in the sense they look Aqua rather than the ugly grey Gecko boxes that Firefox had been using since day 1.)

Josh (the other one), any Camino trunk nightly will have all these changes; Aqua themed form controls were never turned off in Camino, and Josh’s last checkin when turning on the controls for Firefox was to remove the last bits of things that only Camino was using.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 30 May 2007 02:32:57 +0000

Are there Camino builds using these updated form controls?

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 27 May 2007 12:17:22 +0000

I would love to see native text fields, too. If they are native, I wonder why I’m unable to use Shift-CMD-D while hovering a word. Typically this brings up the dictionary helper but it’s never worked in Firefox. I always guessed it was because Firefox was using its own widgets but hopefully this can be fixed now.

Excellent work!

By: Reinout van Schouwen

Reinout van Schouwen — Sat, 26 May 2007 22:11:50 +0000

Very nice! Now if we could only have native GTK controls…

By: joe

joe — Fri, 25 May 2007 19:55:05 +0000

Great job, been waiting for this!

Now onward to implementing other Camino features, like Keychain support

By: Boris

Boris — Fri, 25 May 2007 19:05:41 +0000

The mousewheel thing is a bug that’s filed. It should get fixed, yes.

By: René

René — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:46:40 +0000

Hi there,

first of all, great work, I really appreciate it!

Stupid question, are there any attmepts to make dropdown lists scrollable with the mousewheel? it’s set up like that in Safari and one of the key features/enhancements I’m missing in Firefox.

Cheers, René

By: giandrea

giandrea — Fri, 25 May 2007 10:03:31 +0000

What about switching back to Pinstripe on Mac OS X? The new Firefox 2 theme is horrible...

By: Brandon Sharitt

Brandon Sharitt — Fri, 25 May 2007 08:53:00 +0000

Just got it and looking good. Thanks for all the hard work. While the Camino hacks were nice to get a good OS X browser, but it’s nice to see things being cleaned up and Firefox being officially usable on the Mac. Now if we can just get a non crappy theme. Luckily the Nightly tester tools has made the GrApple theme working and pretty.