Closed
Bug 303228
Opened 19 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
Fallback font-family is used when font-weight is not matched
Categories
(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Win32, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
WONTFIX
People
(Reporter: rod.whiteley, Unassigned)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 When a style specifies bold together with a font family that does not support bold, the specified font family is not used. Instead, a fallback font family is used. The CSS 2.1 font matching algorithm http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#algorithm says matching of "3.font-weight...will never fail". In the case of a family with only one weight, all weights should be assigned the same face. Therefore the family can be used at any weight. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. In a web page, make an element's style specify a font family that does not support bold, but specify font-weight: bold; 2. View the web page. Actual Results: The specified font family is not used. Default font family is used, with bold weight. Expected Results: Use the specified font family with normal weight. On my system, some fonts that do not support bold are: Lucida Sans Unicode, BlippoLight, Viner Hand ITC.
Related to bug 249746?
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Comment 2•19 years ago
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(In reply to comment #1) > Related to bug 249746? Yes. Bug 249746 says several things: - Bold should not cause fallback. That part is the same as this bug. - Italic should not cause fallback. CSS *wants* italic to cause fallback. - System-generated fonts should be used. That would be nice, but it's a separate issue. - At one time this worked. I suspect this is true, because I noticed it when updating a web page that I made using an earlier version of Firefox, and I do not think I would have specified a font that did not work at that time.
Assignee: nobody → win32
Component: Layout: Fonts and Text → GFX: Win32
QA Contact: layout.fonts-and-text → ian
Updated•16 years ago
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Product: Core → Core Graveyard
Comment 3•10 years ago
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This bug has been buried in the graveyard and has not been updated in over 5 years. It is probably safe to assume that it will never be fixed, so resolving as WONTFIX. [Mass-change filter: graveyard-wontfix-2014-09-24]
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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