Closed Bug 560080 Opened 14 years ago Closed 11 years ago

MARQUEE problem in firefox 3.6.3

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Version:
3.6 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: yuvahere, Unassigned)

References

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Details

(Whiteboard: [FF3.x]) 

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 GTB7.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 GTB7.0

Hi, please paste the below html code in a file and try to open it in firefox...

<html>
<head>
<title>
My Home Page
</title>
<MARQUEE BEHAVIOR="scroll" DIRECTION ="left" >
<FONT FACE="Monotype Corsiva" color ="red"><B> <I> this is the issue with marque in firefox 3.6.3  </I></B>
</FONT></MARQUEE>
</head>
<body STYLE="color: black">
</body>
</html>


I have just added a marque and this has a trailing characters following the marque text. this has to be corrected as we are unable to establish marque at all in our websites...

-Yuva



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. paste the described html code in a file and
2. reopen it in firefox as well as IE
3. You can see trailing characters following the marque text


Expected Results:  
No trailing characters to be displayed
It's due to the bold effect that you apply to the font. Firefox is doubling the number of bits to have a bold effect, instead of using a real bold variant of the font. This doesn't happen with other fonts, I guess that Monotype Corsiva isn't supplying the correct hints in its TrueType file (I don't know how to check that).

Either change the font, or remove the bold effect. 

The deeper issue is that Firefox isn't erasing the text during scrolling correctly, possible because there's a problem with the bold (and/or italic) effect. I can't back the bug or combination of bugs though.
It indeed seems to be font related. Using Minefield (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; nl; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100418 Minefield/3.7a5pre - Build ID: 20100418035844) I can reproduce the issue. Changing the font to Arial solved the problem.
This is just an issue with the latest release of Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3
And in the earlier versions, this was working perfectly fine...

Please, consider this as a bug and even IE and any other browser does not show this error.

-Yuva
Version: unspecified → 3.6 Branch
Reporter, can you still reproduce using a current version?
If no, please set status to RESOLVED and resolution to WORKSFORME.
If yes, please provide updated information.
Whiteboard: [closeme 2013-07-25][FF3.x]
Resolved per whiteboard
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
Whiteboard: [closeme 2013-07-25][FF3.x] → [FF3.x]
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