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Firefox With REAL OX Widgets
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Manchester,UK
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Firefox is a great browser, unfortunately it has that those ugly 'non platform' form items. There is Firefoxy that replaces them with nicer ones. or you could go for Camino get native widgets, but non of the plugins and a slightly older version of the engine.
But now someone has created a build of the latest Firefox that uses NATIVE widgets, this isn't some theme these are being drawn by the OS so they will even respond if you theme the OS
http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2...a-form-widgets
G4 Optimised builds only at this point though (no G5).
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Between heaven and hell
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Is there a spelling extension for firefox yet? I can't spelll for crap and like that feature in Safari.
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Yes, I know I could buy a PC, but why?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: England
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I'm sorry to say, this is worse. The widgets are not native, they just use the same graphics as the system.
For example, click on a popup menu. It drops below (not over) the menu widget, like it does on Windows. The popup menus still have a scrollbar. The focus ring on the pushbutton is drawn a few pixels too far out. The menu hilight is done in the selection colour (in my case green), rather than the blue/graphite that it should be. There is no focus ring when typing in text fields. There's a strange black hilight added to a popup menu when it is clicked on. Text is dragged and dropped as an outline, rather than as visible text. The contextual menu is still drawn in the wrong font. The push button hilight does not display properly (see image):
I would rather have the non-native widgets, than ones that pretend to be native and are not. And for those of you who know my feelings on widgets, that's rare!
Amorya
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What the nerd community most often fail to realize is that all features aren't equal. A well implemented and well integrated feature in a convenient interface is worth way more than the same feature implemented crappy, or accessed through a annoying interface.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: portland, or, us
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
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For the zealots out there who insist on a set of widgets that isn't even remotely suited to Web forms, work is going on concerning moving Firefox over to the Cocoa widget set as used by Camino. However, as you can see, there's still a fair amount of work to be done.
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You are in Soviet Russia. It is dark. Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!
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