i got raid1, 1 ibm disk & 1 wd... the ibm dies, and pulls down my entire system with it
cikkolata
:/
djce
cikkolata: I don't know what to make of that CSS thing. OK, so we know what's going on now. But two questions come to mind:
(1) Is this a bug in those browsers? Since MB's css sets both color and background-color higher up in the document, shouldn't those cascade down to the forms?
(2) Which colours should the forms use - MB's document colours, or the "theme" colours set elsewhere?
I don't suppose you could look into (1), maybe using the DOM inspector, for me?
cikkolata
if it's a bug, it's a bug in every browser I've tried because if I remove the bits of CSS I mentioned, I always get the defaults.
sure
it's hard to navigate in the dark though
cikkolata scowls at firefox
what exactly do you want me to look at?
djce
What CSS rules are in place, and where they come from, which affect one of the input fields (pick one)
I suppose it's no different from <a> colours, come to think of it.... everyone knows that even if you set a colour which applies to "html" or "body", that your link colours are still going to be blue/purple or whatever, unless you set them to be something else.
It just means that writing CSS can be tricky, because your CSS is always going to interact with the browser's default CSS, and you don't know what or where those defaults are.
cikkolata nods
oh well.... patch? :-)
as I say that presumably depends on Q (2) though.
Personally I'd opt for using MB's colours, as having black form fields inside a white document looks damn weird to me.
cikkolata
I'm not sure what's supposed to happen with form defaults, but browsers seem to assume to use the defaults unless explicitly set
and I can't work out where to look in the specs
black form fields which are readable are much nicer than ones that aren't though :P
I must be the only person on the planet who uses a colour scheme like this
and since that's my default colours, I'm used to seeing them black, white ones look odd to me
djce wonders what that emoticon means... I hope it's friendly :-)
the formstyle class isn't set for the google search.
it's more of "bleh"
I still think you should use defaults :P
what about the selects and checkboxes?
djce
cikkolata: ok, try the defaults then (i.e. remove color, background-color etc from all form-related elements). Then let's see how the page looks, both in a "dark" and a "light" theme.
as long as they work and look usable, let's do that.
It doesn't matter to 99% of the world because they use a "light" theme, so it's the same either way :-)
cikkolata
exactly
and the ones who don't are used to their silly colours
djce
the only change to most people would be in the sidebar
cikkolata
yeah
djce
the light gray form fields becoming white (for most people)
