<input type=color>

Summary

• implement this new input element type

References

• HTML5/input Wiki page
• Online demos:
  • http://diveintohtml5.info/examples/input-type-color.html
  • http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/raw-file/tip/layout/reftests/forms/input/color/input-color-1.html
  • http://demo.hongkiat.com/html5-form-input-type/index2.html
  • http://www.html5tutorial.info/html5-color.php
  • http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_input_type_color

Use Cases

• Visiting a site with input type="color" buttons:
  • make sure that clicking the button pops up a color picker, and the button-color changes to whatever color is chosen
  • make sure that the button's "value" attribute (observable via e.g. right-click & "inspect element") changes to the hex representation of whatever color you chose
  • make sure the event is correctly fired in the Web Console by adding a onchange="console.log('Color changed:',value)" event in the Inspector html input

Test Cases

• The test cases for this feature can be viewed in this spreadsheet or in this Moztrap testsuite.

Important Bugs

• 547004 - Implement <input type="color">
• 930277 - Flip the pref to enable <input type=color> for Linux/Gtk, Windows and Mac OS
• 929496 - Make GTK color-picker dialog non-modal again, without allowing the same <input type="color"> element to spawn multiple dialogs
• 944737 - Color picker issues when opened simultaneously in 2 Firefox windows

Sign off Criteria

• All the test cases were executed.
• All the major bugs have been verified fixed.

Firefox 28 Aurora merge - 12/09/2013

• On the next OSs:
  • Windows 7 64bit
  • Ubuntu 12.04 32bit
  • Mac OSX 10.8

Firefox 28 Aurora (pre-beta sign off) - 01/22/2014

• build ID: 20140121004017
• On the next OSs:
  • Windows 8.1 64bit
  • Ubuntu 13.04 64bit
  • Mac OSX 10.8.5

Firefox 29 Aurora (pre-beta sign off) - 03/10/2014

• verified that the feature was disabled from Firefox 28 beta 8 (bug 977301)
• verified bugs: 977029, 944737, 975468, 929496
• loaded online demos and ran the tests from this testrun on the next OSs:
  • Windows 7 64bit
  • Windows 8 64bit
  • Ubuntu 13.10 32bit
  • Mac OSX 10.8.5
• testrun results

Merge to Release Sign-off

• loaded online demos and ran the tests from this testrun on the next OSs:
  • Windows 7 64bit
  • Windows 8 64bit
  • Ubuntu 13.10 32bit
  • Mac OSX 10.8.5

• testrun results
• Concerns
  • bug:949403
• No blocker, critical, major issues
• No new issues found.

The feature was signed-off on 04/16/2014, following an additional execution of the available test cases associated to this feature.