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Re: bug cannot select text on page

Subject: Re: bug cannot select text on page
From: "Lee Harvey"
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:47:47 -0500
Newsgroups: opera.general
>> Marek Mänd wrote:
>> My text selection color is unchanged in Windows XP Control
>> Panel. I should not be obliged to change Operating System
>> (default-)settings for  some few webpages to be viewed in Opera,
>> especially when by other browsers  mentioned in this thread
>> selection marker works.
>>
>> Its Opera who cant cooperate with <body bgcolor="#000080">
>>
>> I will file a bug in BTS.
>
> Mark V wrote:
> Why?  It is rather clearly some setting on your end whether it be
> Opera or the OS.  Why is this a Opera bug?

...or even Mozilla's text selection color, etc.

It's clearly not a bug in Opera (but perhaps a feature request for 
opera.wishlist), seeing as selecting text is a basic OS-level task that also 
requires an OS-level color combo to be consistent between OS applications. 
FWIW, Opera is simply adhering to MS-mandated Windows UI design guidelines 
here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwue/html/ch14g.asp

Highlighting excerpt:

  "The GetSysColor function provides access to the current
   setting for the system selection highlight color
   (COLOR_HIGHLIGHTTEXT) and selection background color
   (COLOR_HIGHLIGHT). Always use these two system colors in
    their proper foreground and background combination."




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