notes on testing Firefox themes

[patrickjdempsey]

Web Notifications.... is that like "legalized" popups?? Because that's not going to be immediately abused.

[mcdavis]

Web Notifications.... is that like "legalized" popups?? Because that's not going to be immediately abused.

Haha yeah, I'm sure spammers are drooling at the prospect.

At least you do get a chance to tell the site and its notifications to buzz off, permanently ("Always Block").

[patrickjdempsey]

Hopefully, there will be a switch to Always ALWAYS Block so we won't have to even be bothered with the option.

[mcdavis]

Hopefully, there will be a switch to Always ALWAYS Block so we won't have to even be bothered with the option.

"There's a pref for that." (dom.webnotifications.enabled)

[patrickjdempsey]

Here's a summary of results of desktop theme detection with :-moz-system-metric on Windows with the Minefield 20110216 nightly. It's kinda wide, so I put it into a text file for Easy Reading(tm).

http://home.comcast.net/~username54321/ ... 110216.txt

Old ancient stuff here... but I just wanted to note that the following combination detects Windows 7 Basic theme:

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@media (@media not all and (-moz-windows-compositor) {
  @media (-moz-windows-theme:aero) {
    .dostuff: here;
  }
}


[mcdavis]

Old ancient stuff here... but I just wanted to note that the following combination detects Windows 7 Basic theme:

Nice!

(That file didn't used to word-wrap in the browser, back when I posted it ...)

[patrickjdempsey]

Yeah I noticed that.... I had to make it very very tiny to see the "chart" layout.

[mcdavis]

OK, so I had to look it up.

Bug 253564 - Plain text (text/plain, text/javascript, text/css, etc) documents should word-wrap

Menubar > View > Page Style > Basic Page Style

[patrickjdempsey]

The menu apparently toggles: plain_text.wrap_long_lines

[mcdavis]

New subject: anyone know how you test the devtools manifest editor in the app manager for Fx27? I have some installed apps but it doesn't seem to want that. Is there some test app I can download (which I'm guessing needs to be in some not-yet-packaged source form)?

[patrickjdempsey]

I'm not even sure I really get what all this "web app" business is about. It's never really made any sense to me.

[Philip Chee]

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@media (@media not all and (-moz-windows-compositor) {
  @media (-moz-windows-theme:aero) {
    .dostuff: here;
  }
}


Hmm. I thought you couldn't nest @media rules? [google google google]
Ah CSS3 relaxes the restrictions in CSS2.1. This should come in useful!

Phil

[patrickjdempsey]

Yes, not sure when this change happened but we discussed nesting not working in this thread a few years back. The ability to have 'all' and 'not all' nested together makes for interesting logic and opens up some possibilities that the architects probably didn't intend.

[patrickjdempsey]

Here's a nested media query that allows you to detect non-Windows:

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@media not all and (-moz-windows-theme: zune) {
@media not all and (-moz-windows-theme: royale) {
@media not all and (-moz-windows-theme: generic) {
@media not all and (-moz-windows-default-theme) {
@media not all and (-moz-windows-classic) {
     #selector {dostuff: here;}
}}}}}


[mcdavis]

Here's what I'm using for a test checklist, covering up through Firefox 34.

http://mcdavis.dreamhosters.com/comms/t ... 141123.txt