149364 - Formatted text in links (a elements) not displayed

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020602

If you look at http://piology.org/publications.html you may notice, that the
letter P in PIWINGER disappears (always) if it is at the beginning of a line
(you may have to change your windows width). It also happens, if at the end of a
line, but not always.

The page and its CSS validate. We are in standard compliance mode.

The code looks like this:
<a href="http://www.piwinger.de/">P<font size="-1">IWINGER</font>, Manfred</a>

Of course, it also fails with other names.

This is a major bug since text is not displayed which changes context or gives
the impression that the author made mistakes with names.

pi

Comment 1

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

Confirming, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0+)
Gecko/20020604

Comment 2

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Also happening for Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0+)
Gecko/20020603.

pi

Comment 3

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Attachment: Testcase

Much smaller testcase than original page.

pi

Comment 4

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

This bug is getting worse!

I noted that it also does not print.

Further, I changed the page to avoid possible problems with the font element. I
no have something like this:
<a href="http://www.kirchhoff.de/"><span class="author">Kirchhoff</span>, Klaus
Rainer</a>

Where this is defined as:
    span.author {
      font-variant:small-caps;
    }

Now the complete word vanishes. Further testing shows, it only happens in link text.

pi

Comment 5

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Attachment: Testcase

Better testcase. This shows different ways of formatting text which do not
display. It also shows that the problem only happens for links.

pi

Comment 6

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Adding keywords. In older version the page was displayed correctly. I cannot
tell, when the problem occured.

I currently see it in:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020603
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020606

I do not see it in Release 1.0 on Linux.

pi

Comment 7

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Attachment: Screenshot "Works For Me"

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523
Interesting gimmick to chantge the text-size within the text containing a link!

This causes an ugly underline within the link, too (not vixible in the
screenshot, but in the testcase).

Comment 8

[Rainer Bielefeld]

May be an interesting effect:
if I mark all the text of
http://piology.org/publications.html
the first letters of link-texts are shown in the same colour as normal text. 
Also, starting with the comma in the link-text, the ends of the link-texts are
shown in the same colour as normal text.

Comment 9

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Even though Rainer does not see the problem, I see what he describes in the
previous comment.

pi

Comment 10

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

I did some more testing (trunk only, no release has it):

Version without the bug:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020515
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/2002052308
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/2002052809

Versions with the bug:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/2002052908
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/2002053008
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/2002060104
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020602
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020603
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020604
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/2002060616

This is as close as I could find versions to test. So at least we now have 23
hours to look at.

pi

Comment 11

[Simon Paquet]

Confirming and voting, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US;
rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020606

Comment 12

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Bug 148399 might be related.

pi

Comment 13

[Stephan Hohe]

Attachment: Word disappearing at line end

Comment 14

[Stephan Hohe]

Attachment: Word disappearing at line begin

Comment 15

[Stephan Hohe]

Attachment: Word overlapping at line end

Attachment 86883 [details] shows a disappeared word at the line end.
In attachment 86884 [details] the word ("Kirchhoff") is back again, but a word at the
begin of the next line is missing ("Piwinger").
In the next attachment two words are overlapping at line end.

Comment 16

[Andrew Schultz]

backing out bug 145305 does fix this, although the behavior is different enough
from bug 148399 that I'm not sure it's a dupe.

Comment 17

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

*** Bug 150217 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To karnaze, since backing out bug 145305 fixes this.

Comment 19

[Andrew Schultz]

worksforme with linux build 20020615

Comment 20

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

WORKSFORME, 2002-06-14-08 (trunk) on Windows 98 SE.

Comment 21

[Jens Fallesen]

WFM, 2002061608/FreeBSD 4.6RC1

Comment 22

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020619

V.

pi