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| Summary: | [Webapp] Background color for TOC on Linux GTK using Firefox | ||||||||||
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| Product: | [Eclipse Project] Platform | Reporter: | Chris Goldthorpe <cgold> | ||||||||
| Component: | User Assistance | Assignee: | platform-ua-inbox <platform-ua-inbox> | ||||||||
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |||||||||
| Severity: | normal | ||||||||||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | lindawat | ||||||||
| Version: | 3.3 | ||||||||||
| Target Milestone: | 3.4 M4 | ||||||||||
| Hardware: | Other | ||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||
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Description
Chris Goldthorpe
Created attachment 55057 [details]
Screenshot
Hi Chris, It is a little weird--we have seen something that might be related. Maybe you could address both at the same time. While we have not seen the TOC/etc views with the gray backgrounds in Firefox for standalone/infocenter modes, we have seen the Content side with a gray background appearing in Firefox, if the topic has no 'body background-color' set for its CSS. That is, the HTML file in Firefox by itself shows a white background, but then when it is a topic file in the infocenter, it suddently gets a gray background. This is in Firefox 1.0.7 running on Windows. We normally alleviate this appearance of by ensuring our topics' CSS has a body background-color defined, but sometimes things slip through without a linked CSS file. It would be great if there was some fix to this as a default to white. We have had input that people dislike the gray background showing by default. The gray color almost looks like the same gray as the toolbar button line in the user interface itself. I will attach some topic files that display the gray background in Firefox in infocenter mode, if their CSS has no body background-color set. --Lee Anne Created attachment 55058 [details]
doc plug-in for testing, css does not have body background-color set
Unzip this zip file and you'll get a doc plug-in to test. In 3.1.1 infocenter mode, viewed with Firefox 1.0.7, topic content gets gray background automatically. CSS file for these HTML files does not set body background-color. When HTML file is opened singleton in Firefox, the background is white. But in the help webapp, somehow gray is being applied into the content side.
Created attachment 55061 [details]
same doc plug-in,but with CSS file now has body background-color set
This is the same doc plug-in, but with a body background-color=#fffff added to the CSS file used by the topics. When these topics are loaded in a 3.1.1 infocenter in Firefox 1.0.7, now they appear with white background (enforced by the CSS).
The preference is that if there is no body background-color set, to have the default in the Content side go to white instead of gray. It visually almost looks like the Content side is picking up gray from the UI or toolbar layout.
I've noticed the same thing where the default background color of a page ends up being gray on Firefox when you open it in help. I think this is happening because the background color is being set in an outer frame which contains the content frame. I agree that it would be better to let the background color default for both the content and for the TOC/Index/Bookmarks, the toolbars should keep the same background color they have now. Agreed with what Chris wrote: toolbars keep the same background color and have a default for content/TOC/Index/Bookmarks views background (presumably white. :-). Another variant of this is that the tabs for selecting the view (TOC/Index/Bookmarks etc) are all gray, the active tab is not white. |