On 26/08/14 12:13, svetlana wrote:

Matthew Flaschen wrote:

Jon Robson wrote:

If you are curious what this would look like it would look like this:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/styleguide/desktop/select.html

Technical details aside, I see a few issues.  In Firefox, there are two
focus indicators (blue bar and dotted line focus indicator).  Only one
is needed.  The left-hand blue bar makes more sense to me for a text
input (I can type) since I mentally associate it with a caret.

Yeah same here. And why is it grey background? I used to have white background of select boxes everywhere.

Grey background is normally used on form elements to indicate disabled status, but I think in this case it's either just an old implementation or an issue with the select ement itself, since selects are notoriously difficult to style. Generally you need a pile of js specifically for them if you want anything consistent across browsers, and that may have been missing here.

Anyway, May included some mockups and they all use white, so that looks good. My main concern at this point is how well this (or rather, the framework for this) will translate to other skins, but that's a different discussion entirely.

-I

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