On 08/19/2014 02:02 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
Maybe it's just me, but the new disabled checkbox doesn't look disabled to me: https://tools.wmflabs.org/styleguide/desktop/section-5.html
The normal convention for making a form element disabled is to make it faded out (<100% opacity), not giving it a gray fill.
I disagree. I think gray fill is a understood convention because it is a browser default for text inputs. In Firefox, it's also the same convention for checkboxes. Try http://jsfiddle.net/ap1d28ka/1/ in various browsers including Firefox (both gray fill) and Chromium (both gray fill, checkbox also apparently translucent).
I think the extension to checkboxes is fairly straightforward. I don't claim this is the only reasonable way to do disabled checkboxes, but it's an option.
Matt Flaschen