Comments on: Secret Firefox Icons

By: John Drinkwater

John Drinkwater — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:40:50 +0000

To avoid unsightly icons for non-Gecko browsers, put
@-moz-document url-prefix() { } around your CSS.

By: Corentine

Corentine — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:16:30 +0000

This is great info to know.

By: johny why

johny why — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:32:27 +0000

hi Trev
i could not find a contact form, so i’m using this.

how can i use your perpostcss to put css in a widget?

thanks!

By: gomelet

gomelet — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:18:58 +0000

These icons are from the GTK part of firefox, right? I am using GNOME and recognize them from the default file manager, Nautilus. Guess that there are a few add-ons that let you use Firefox to interact more easily with hard-drive data, but I thought that it went against the browser’s security model to interact with local files.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:54:42 +0000

James, one option for getting around the IE/Safari ugliness is to check for user agents, and hide the images for anything which is not Firefox. This is trivial to do with a javascript framework such as jQuery.

By: chanux

chanux — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:50:36 +0000

Nice.

By: James D Kirk

James D Kirk — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:27:17 +0000

Just make sure that if you employ this technique you are happy with not attempting to make your page look good in IE or Safari. Why? Cause you are only going to get red “X”s in IE, and blue “?”s in Safari. And that’s too bad, because it would be wonderful to just call on the destination operating system for applications like this. Oh, well, we clearly don’t live in a Utopian world (yet!)