One of the reasons that Mac Users do so, is the relatively consistent interface, resulting in greater ease of use than the random artistic? efforts of developers on other platforms. For reference, it is basically only Firefox that has the audacity to break those guidelines - Safari, iCab and Camino all play nicely, hence their greater acceptance by the Mac community.
As an aside, are you the kind of person who likes to style the scroll bars in IE/Win? Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TomGou > Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 5:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [WSG] Form Widgets > > 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 > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
