Comments on: question: dualbutton css http://clarkbw.net/blog/2009/05/11/question-dualbutton-css/ Change thrives on me Mon, 14 May 2012 17:49:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jim http://clarkbw.net/blog/2009/05/11/question-dualbutton-css/comment-page-1/#comment-7370 Jim Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:44:15 +0000 http://clarkbw.net/blog/?p=633#comment-7370 It looks like this is getting fixed for Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509642 It looks like this is getting fixed for Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509642

]]> By: Jim http://clarkbw.net/blog/2009/05/11/question-dualbutton-css/comment-page-1/#comment-6801 Jim Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:55:52 +0000 http://clarkbw.net/blog/?p=633#comment-6801 In addition to being wrong for Gnome as mentioned above, dualbuttons are wrong for Windows too. The Win32 version of a dualbutton, a "split button", is a special kind of button that has a bar between the text and the arrow. It's not a button within a button as you'd get with -moz-appearance:dualbutton-dropdown. The same thing applies to toolbar buttons (e.g. the "Get Mail" button in Thunderbird). It seems like this idea is fairly common across OS boundaries so maybe there should be a more straightforward way to handle it? I looked at the DOM for the new message buttons in Thunderbird 3 and it feels like it's trying to work around buggy/missing features with -moz-appearance. MSDN has some information about the buttons here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb775947%28VS.85%29.aspx . Note that it's a little misleading and split buttons are in XP as well. In addition to being wrong for Gnome as mentioned above, dualbuttons are wrong for Windows too. The Win32 version of a dualbutton, a “split button”, is a special kind of button that has a bar between the text and the arrow. It’s not a button within a button as you’d get with -moz-appearance:dualbutton-dropdown.

The same thing applies to toolbar buttons (e.g. the “Get Mail” button in Thunderbird). It seems like this idea is fairly common across OS boundaries so maybe there should be a more straightforward way to handle it? I looked at the DOM for the new message buttons in Thunderbird 3 and it feels like it’s trying to work around buggy/missing features with -moz-appearance.

MSDN has some information about the buttons here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb775947%28VS.85%29.aspx . Note that it’s a little misleading and split buttons are in XP as well.

]]> By: Bryan Clark http://clarkbw.net/blog/2009/05/11/question-dualbutton-css/comment-page-1/#comment-6561 Bryan Clark Thu, 14 May 2009 06:13:58 +0000 http://clarkbw.net/blog/?p=633#comment-6561 Neil: I'm looking at this from a "How can I hack around the toolkit behaviour" to get what I want. I'm not sure if I see this as a toolkit bug but I haven't thought about it from that angle. @_FrnchFrgg_: thanks for the tip, I'll try that out! - sorry comments weren't working for a while, the captcha key went bad for some reason - Neil: I’m looking at this from a “How can I hack around the toolkit behaviour” to get what I want. I’m not sure if I see this as a toolkit bug but I haven’t thought about it from that angle.

@_FrnchFrgg_: thanks for the tip, I’ll try that out!

- sorry comments weren’t working for a while, the captcha key went bad for some reason -

]]> By: _FrnchFrgg_ http://clarkbw.net/blog/2009/05/11/question-dualbutton-css/comment-page-1/#comment-6560 _FrnchFrgg_ Wed, 13 May 2009 22:07:42 +0000 http://clarkbw.net/blog/?p=633#comment-6560 In fact, to blend more in the gnome ui, we should make dropdown always appear as two separate buttons and not some kind of a button that overwrites part of the border of another (that's the goal of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409655, shame on me for not doing anything mozilla-related these past months). You probably want to use -moz-appearance: button for the two inner objects of the dropdown, and remove the special -moz-appearance that the dropdown probably has. In fact, to blend more in the gnome ui, we should make dropdown always appear as two separate buttons and not some kind of a button that overwrites part of the border of another (that’s the goal of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409655, shame on me for not doing anything mozilla-related these past months).

You probably want to use -moz-appearance: button for the two inner objects of the dropdown, and remove the special -moz-appearance that the dropdown probably has.

]]> By: Malcolm Parsons http://clarkbw.net/blog/2009/05/11/question-dualbutton-css/comment-page-1/#comment-6559 Malcolm Parsons Wed, 13 May 2009 14:10:05 +0000 http://clarkbw.net/blog/?p=633#comment-6559 > (Mac is using it’s own button style) s/it’s/its/ > (Mac is using it’s own button style)

s/it’s/its/

]]> By: Neil Rashbrook http://clarkbw.net/blog/2009/05/11/question-dualbutton-css/comment-page-1/#comment-6556 Neil Rashbrook Wed, 13 May 2009 09:28:31 +0000 http://clarkbw.net/blog/?p=633#comment-6556 Are you approaching this from the toolkit point of view ("I think toolkit has a bug that needs to be fixed") or the Thunderbird point of view ("How do I hack around this toolkit behaviour")? Are you approaching this from the toolkit point of view (“I think toolkit has a bug that needs to be fixed”) or the Thunderbird point of view (“How do I hack around this toolkit behaviour”)?

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