In short, interface consistency, and catering to user expectations.
More specifically, apple tends not to trust its users to have taste,
or sense. So they make input elements look like every other button in
the interface so user expectations are not violated, I.E. forced to
think.
Very simple really. Though you will note this issue only really
exists with safari. Firefox for mac has standard windows style
widgets, and I'm not sure what the situation in camino is, but it has
the same rendering engine as firefox so I imagine it's pretty similar.
On 07/02/2007, at 4:22 PM, TomGou wrote:
Greetings All,
Can someone explain why Mac browsers seem to have a more restricted
styling of form elements? For example (as I asked in an earlier
message) the Input with a type=submit, Safari uses the Aqua
interface styling and ignores Author based CSS styling. Why is this
considered a good thing? What's the harm in allowing authors to
style input buttons, so they're not limited to one look?
I'm truly curious.
-TIA
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