full-disclosure - Re: minor browser UI nitpicking

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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:13:24 +0100
From: Christian Sciberras <uuf6429@...il.com>
To: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@...edump.cx>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: minor browser UI nitpicking

> I'm guessing you have your window manager configured to render window
> shadows. In this case, this is less plausible, yup, unless you do the
> inverted gradient trick.

Ah, reminds me. On Windows 7, the blue border fill is actually a gradient
like other window borders, just remembered it used to be pretty simplistic.
Don't know if this is a Windows 7 thing or a Chrome update (got Chrome 8.0
here).

> I tried to dig something up, but couldn't. But we definitely had these
> around 2001-2003, culminating in browsers removing the ability to do
> location=no in window.open().

Yeah, got the idea. Had the impression you forgot to link to your
preferred/specific example.

Cheers,
Chris.

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@...edump.cx>wrote:

> > 1) Yup, pretty unconvincing. Though one could separate window shadows,
>
> I'm guessing you have your window manager configured to render window
> shadows. In this case, this is less plausible, yup, unless you do the
> inverted gradient trick.
>
> > 2) Where is "here"? :)
>
> I tried to dig something up, but couldn't. But we definitely had these
> around 2001-2003, culminating in browsers removing the ability to do
> location=no in window.open().
>
> /mz
>

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