124690 - <i> not rendered in italic font

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 124306

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[lars.kuehne]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    

In the "latest news" section of http://sourceforge.net/projects/checkstyle, the
text "oburn - 2002..." is contained in a <i> tag and should be rendered with an
italic font.
On my RedHat 7.2 machine it is instead rendered with a normal font, with a lot
of space between the individual letters.

build 2001112808 on the same machine renders this page correctly.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. start Mozilla 0.9.8 on a RedHat 7.2 standard installation
2. visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/checkstyle
3. check the latest news section on the page


Actual Results:  Name and timestamp are rendered with normal font
There is a free space (not a ' ' character) between the individual characters

Expected Results:  Name and timestamp are rendered with italics font
No space between individual charcters

Comment 1

[lars.kuehne]

Attachment: side by side view of url in builds 2002020415 and 2001112808

Screenshot that demonstrates regression: Two browsers running side by side,
Mozilla 0.9.8 on the left, Mozilla 0.9.6+ on the right.

The relevant html code is "<i>oburn - 2002-02-06 19:19</i>"

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

works for me on build 2002020408 (MacOS 9.2.2)

Comment 3

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

Apparently a Linux-only problem. Can't reproduce on 2002-02-08-00, Win32,
MathML/SVG.

Comment 4

[R.B.]

WFM Linux (Debian), build 2002020707.

Comment 5

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

sama Build, Debian sid, got Mozilla from mozilla.org -> works.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Duplicate of "Italic looks horrible (as does <em>stuff</em>)."

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124306 ***