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The new omnibox is hideous and hard to see
M_S wrote:
I like it this way. Bending is better.
Same here, it's not bothering me, neither on dark theme nor on light.
when I click on the omnibox the outline appears which is good but other than that i don't need to have outline up there when my focus is on the main web page content in the website.
off topic: Google's Material Design grey palette was a lot better than their new Material Theme palette!
19lmyers is referring to the actual chrome of Edge.
- That's what I suspected. Notably, the blue accent in dark theme also follows Chrome's dark theme palette, so I suspected this was a bug related to defaults not being overridden.
And I agree that Chrome's old color palette was much better, I like how Edge Insider is closer to it than to new Chrome- You obviously haven't checked light theme, which is affected more by this bug than dark theme.
But you can see in that screenshot that the omnibox is still using the wrong black, which is too dark and not following Edge Insider's color palette.
And if you're looking to use new Chrome as an example of good design, I won't have that.
- It is a bug that omnibox blends in with the rest of the UI to stop causing distraction for the user when viewing main page contents in websites?
"It is a bug that omnibox blends in with the rest of the UI to stop causing distraction for the user when viewing main page contents in websites?"
I already provided my evidence. It's the same colour as Google's grey. Microsoft doesn't use the same palette.
And well, if they wanted the omnibox to blend in with the rest of the chrome, they'd do that instead of forgetting to change the colour.
and to resole your argument with 19lmyers, the resting state of the omnibox has a different colour to the hovered and focused omnibox. simple as that. and this is about the light theme. not the dark/InPrivate theme.Edit: and I hope both of you have a nice and happy day!
if you're wondering why i'm saying this a little randomly, I'm hoping that by in me saying it, others will reciprocate as I'm not really doing well
off topic:
What countries are you guys from? 😄 I'm from Australia!
Check again now after updating your Canary build, both in dark and light mode, it's changed.
Version 79.0.290.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)
- What? That's literally the opposite of what is going on here. If that was to be the case there should be no shadow around the omnibox at all.
The current shadow is in an uncanny valley of being visible but very difficult to focus on. It's clearly a bug.
And I don't think this ridiculous pursuit of "zero contrast browser chrome" is a good idea. Sometimes you need to clearly show the separation of parts of the UI, such as the click/touch target of the omnibox. Also, without it, people won't identify it as a web browser.
19lmyers wrote:
What? That's literally the opposite of what is going on here. If that was to be the case there should be no shadow around the omnibox at all.
The current shadow is in an uncanny valley of being visible but very difficult to focus on. It's clearly a bug.
And I don't think this ridiculous pursuit of "zero contrast browser chrome" is a good idea. Sometimes you need to clearly show the separation of parts of the UI, such as the click/touch target of the omnibox. Also, without it, people won't identify it as a web browser.That's not the opposite, we're discussing the omnibox here.
there is little no no shadow at all.
Mate I see no bug here. if you do, post a picture and mark the area that you think is a bug so we and the developers who might visit this topic will see it.
