On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 5:46:34 PM UTC+2, Jeff Larsen wrote:
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>> On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 10:21:18 AM UTC-5, Thomas Broyer wrote:
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>>> On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 3:29:35 PM UTC+2, Jeff Larsen wrote:
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>>>> Wow, this is awesome.
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>>> +1
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>>>> I haven't started digging into the code yet, but I would like to point
>>>> out a minor nit. In Firefox giving the scrollbars opacity looks OK, but in
>>>> chrome, it doesn't look right (see attached file). Personally, I think
>>>> people are used to not being able to see through scrollbars so I would
>>>> recommend just removing the opacity.
>>>>
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>>> This was part of another patch a few weeks ago, it's the
>>> CustomScrollPanel.
>>>
>>> What you're seeing only applies on Windows (IIRC, I had that on Windows
>>> XP too on the CustomScrollPanel demo that John put online at the time it
>>> proposed the widget), as it shows well on Ubuntu. It's a Chrome bug that I
>>> think is not worth working around in GWT.
>>> See http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=24524
>>>
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>> Yea, that makes sense that its a chrome bug. I'll just change the css in
>> my application to not use any opacity to get around the issue. I think my
>> main concern was that most people aren't used to opacity in their
>> scrollbars. When I looked at it initially, it just didn't feel like any
>> experiences I've had on the web previously.
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> Actually, when I saw the transparency, I immediately checked whether it
> wasn't Chrome's default behavior on Linux ;-) (given that I switched from
> Windows less than a week ago, it woudln't have surprised me much that I
> wouldn't have noticed it, as much things I read don't have an horizontal
> scrollbar, and thus wouldn't need transparency on the vertical scrollbar
> either).
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>> Is there any bug tracker you don't know by heart? :)
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> I didn't actually know that bug until 2 mins before sending the previous
> message: I just search on crbug.com for "scroll bar opacity". You don't
> need to know things by heart when you have a good search engine ;-)
> (well, I have a good memory, so things regularly "ring a bell", and the
> search engine is then just the mean to find it back)
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