Changing scrollbar color

[DU]

Hi Sam!




The web site is an inhouse (not public) site

You should have mentioned that at the beginning of your original post.
IMO, it still does not change the issue involved.

and the reason that I want to

change the colour of the scrollbars (for example in textareas) is because I
think they don't look nice (NN7.1 with "default" theme).

What if the users, the current real ones, don't agree with you? You're
trying to override this. A web user should always be able to have
absolute veto power and control over chrome, toolbars, scrollbars, etc...

Of course that is

my opinion and you may say that it is up to the user to apply a theme

Are you actually arguing that it may not be up to the user to apply
whatever theme he prefers? By trying to configure scrollbars, you are in
fact trying to impose your preference, your pseudo-"theme" on
scrollbars. Aren't you denying what you're saying up here?

DU

 

[kchayka]

the reason that I want to
change the colour of the scrollbars (for example in textareas) is because I
think they don't look nice (NN7.1 with "default" theme).

Netscape/mozilla doesn't support styling scrollbars (fortunately).
Neither does Opera or most other browsers.

If NN7.1 happens to be your default browser, then either change your
desktop theme or browser theme if you want different scrollbars.

If you think changing the scrollbars will somehow enhance the user
experience for other visitors, you are mistaken. You are more likely
only creating a usability problem. This even got special mention in one
of Jakob Nielsen's articles:

<URL:http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20021125.html>
"One particular usability problem is worth emphasizing: in several
applications, users missed many of the options because of nonstandard
scrollbars."

The fact that the tested apps were all Flash is irrelevant, the result
is the same with pretty much any stylized widgets. The moral is: don't
mess with the UI just because you can.

 

[Frogleg]

If you think changing the scrollbars will somehow enhance the user
experience for other visitors, you are mistaken. You are more likely
only creating a usability problem. This even got special mention in one
of Jakob Nielsen's articles:

<URL:http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20021125.html>
"One particular usability problem is worth emphasizing: in several
applications, users missed many of the options because of nonstandard
scrollbars."

I agree completely. I hate seeing "my special color to match my
special page" scrollbars. Have you noticed they're usually on the most
loathsome pages? Black background with red text? It's like groping
around in the dark for the light switch.

 

[Steven]

Colour LCD display on the surface of the steering wheel, picking up
radio signals for the colour codes from transmitters along the road.

Not yet implemented.

But Apple may have just patented something like that for computers...
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph...NR.&OS=dn/20040156192&RS=DN/20040156192?tMoJk

Steven

 

[Hans]

What if the users, the current real ones, don't agree with you? You're

trying to override this. A web user should always be able to have
absolute veto power and control over chrome, toolbars, scrollbars, etc...

The funny thing is that the "real ones" are the ones that want the change in
the first place but they only want this in some pages and not everywhere
(which changing a theme would cause).

Regards
/Hans