Form widgets on fpo website

Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek jakub.rusinek at gmail.com
Tue Dec 25 18:29:22 UTC 2007


You don't understand. Rectangular widgets, non-native are ugly and
they're making websites looking more out-of-the-box, what's wrong.

Dnia 25-12-2007, wto o godzinie 12:23 -0600, Michael Beckwith pisze:
> I see nothing wrong with styling it for those who have support for it.
> It's a web accessability thing. Ability to style it and see a nice
> looking form, or if your browser doesn't support it, then it still
> gets form controls with the universal default which still allows it to
> be useable. If your complaint is that the styled version is "90ish"
> with a square appearance, then I will reconsider my arguements.
> 
> Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote: 
> > Exactly that widgets should not be styled.
> > 
> > Dnia 25-12-2007, wto o godzinie 12:06 -0600, Michael Beckwith pisze:
> >   
> > > Well, you can do the appealing to the people that be that dictate the
> > > default appearance of any sort of basic form appearance for forms.
> > > It's nothing that the art or the website team have anything to do
> > > with. Until you can appeal to the people that set this, you can either
> > > use a browser that supports styled forms, or put up with it.
> > > 
> > > On a personal note, I am not really all that bothered by whatever form
> > > widgets are on  fedoraproject.org root url. Only one I see is the one
> > > to switch the language, which is small enough and out of the way
> > > enough to not worry about personally. 
> > > 
> > > Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote: 
> > >     
> > > > But it doesn't change the fact. Form styling (not the alignment, the
> > > > appearance css part) MUST be removed or changed to non-rectangular
> > > > (rectangles were nice in win9x epoch).
> > > > 
> > > >       
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