[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 16645] want way to make default button pulse like default Aqua dialog buttons.

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16645





------- Comment #4 from phoenix1701 at gmail.com  2008-03-22 13:03 PDT -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> 'm concerned about adding this capability, since any Web page would then be
> able to use it.  We deliberately omitted the pulse from default form control
> buttons because it could create visually distracting and confusing Web pages
> (multiple forms on the page would have multiple pulses etc.).
> 

I think the above is a good reason not to make the submit button for a form
pulse by default, yes.  However, adding a CSS property for this is, I think,
quite consistent with the direction WebKit has taken in the past.  Yes,
developers could abuse it by making multiple pulsing buttons and failing to map
them to the return key so they don't work, but so long as they have to
explicitly turn on the behavior you aren't facilitating bad UI design, and
there are any number of other ways to make a hideous, eye-bleedingly bad Web UI
without pulsing buttons.  Since you obviously can't and shouldn't refuse to
display Web sites that appear to be in bad taste, I think your obligation ends
when a Web developer explicitly turns something on knowing perfectly well what
it will do.


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