Patrick H. Lauke said: >> I think it is quite simple, don't use any scale of grey at all. Grey is >> reserved for meaning *read only*. > > With all due respect, that sounds a tad too draconian for my > tastes...It needs to be evaluated on a case by case basis.
Ah, well, if you (royal you) really *must* use grey (out of the the 65 million that are usually available), at least do some user testing to see if users thinks the field is disabled or not. Sounds like a job for cognitive walkthrough: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~zwz22/CognWalk.htm kind regards Terrence Wood. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
