376076 - font text render error at edge of layered element

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[mcdavis941 (sporadically reading bugmail)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

Slashdot offers an interactive slider-like widget in-page for filtering comments for display.  This widget is represented as a layered element.  When text is rendered partly beneath this layered element, it renders incorrectly, showing a shearing effect. Screenshot in a moment.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Configure your slashdot account so the filter slider shows.
2.  Go to http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/31/0214208&from=rss
3.  Scroll up and down in small increments and watch what happens as text emerges from underneath the slider.

Comment 1

[mcdavis941 (sporadically reading bugmail)]

Attachment: screenshot showing shear

Comment 2

[mcdavis941 (sporadically reading bugmail)]

Or maybe not strictly about the text, since it looks like the background color is shifted a little too.

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Does it also happen in trunk builds?
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 4

[mcdavis941 (sporadically reading bugmail)]

Not after five minutes of trying to make it happen.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Does it also happen in trunk builds?
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
(In reply to comment #4)
> Not after five minutes of trying to make it happen.

in that case mcdavis, you can close (resolve) the bug WORKSFORME, as the problem is fixed in the development branch