Comments on: Do You Want a Mac? Mac Envy http://www.robinsblog.com/07252005/do-you-want-a-mac-mac-envy/ Resources for Web Development Students Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:51:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: David Hucklesby http://www.robinsblog.com/07252005/do-you-want-a-mac-mac-envy/comment-page-1/#comment-192 David Hucklesby Tue, 26 Jul 2005 05:14:11 +0000 http://www.robinsblog.com/?p=182#comment-192 Mac OS X is not just a pretty (inter)face. :-) About those nice forms - the select boxes are unusable in FF and Opera (7 & 8). 456 Berea Street has done an exhaustive study into how far it is possible to go in styling form elements. In brief, each platform / browser combination is different; there's no consistency: <a href="http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200409/styling_form_controls/" title="456 Berea Street, 27 Sep 2004." rel="nofollow"><b>Styling form controls</b></a> and <a href="http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200410/styling_even_more_form_controls/" title="456 Berea Street, 14 Oct 2004." rel="nofollow"><b>Styling even more form controls</b></a> Mac OS X is not just a pretty (inter)face. :-)

About those nice forms – the select boxes are unusable in FF and Opera (7 & 8).

456 Berea Street has done an exhaustive study into how far it is possible to go in styling form elements. In brief, each platform / browser combination is different; there’s no consistency:

Styling form controls and
Styling even more form controls

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