Those controls are not part of the content, they are part of the application or operating environment itself, and I have configured them the way that I want them.
As such, they should be off limits to web designer's whims.
As an aside, my experience with web sites over the years (particularly recently) doesn't exactly give me a great deal of confidence that they would make appropriate choices for the appearance of these controls.
> Those controls are not part of the content, they are part of the application or operating environment itself, and I have configured them the way that I want them.
Depends on the browser, but e.g. text area colors can be styled anyway (and therefore made unusable, how irresponsible that CSS allows for this), and whether scrollbars show up in the first place is CSS, too. You can override that with user stylesheets if you want, but no need to hardcode that for everybody.
> doesn't exactly give me a great deal of confidence that they would make appropriate choices for the appearance of these controls.
You're now the third person to say this, and the second to do so while ignoring what I responded to that point, so again:
If you can't read the text, why do you care about the scrollbar? If you can read the text, why do you worry about the scrollbar? In what conceivable practical scenario do you gain anything? The very same people who picked all the other colors might also color the scrollbar, but how is going to make a default scrollbar make an otherwise unusable site usable?
We can already hide scrollbars, but coloring them differently, that's a problem? I don't buy it, as they say. How is an ugly scrollbar, or one that uses the same color twice and is unusable that way, worse than none?
As such, they should be off limits to web designer's whims.
As an aside, my experience with web sites over the years (particularly recently) doesn't exactly give me a great deal of confidence that they would make appropriate choices for the appearance of these controls.