171934 - large empty space in place of apostrophe

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 138883

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Robert Jacobson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021001
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021001

One more than one occassion, I have visited slashdot.org and seen a large space
in the text in the story description.  In that space should have been just an
apostrophe.  The same page rendered okay in OmniWeb, IE.

The problem seems to go away when: 1)  Clicking on the "Read More" link.  The
story description rendered correctly  2) More stories were added to the slashdot
front page.  Would this be indicative of bad HTML on slashdot?  If so, I would
hope mozilla would handle it better.

The problem was most interesting when selecting the text near the apostrophe. 
As I selected the text from left to right leading up the apostrophe, the text to
 the right of the blank space moved to the left, making the gap smaller.  Once
the selection was one character to the left of where the apostrophe should be,
there was no space.  If I extended the selection past the point of the
apostrophe, the text to the right was garbled (characters drawn over each
other).  As soon I I figured out how to attached documents to this report, I'll
attach pictures.  "apostrohpe1.tiff" will show the space where the apostrohpe
should be.  apostrohpe2.tiff - aprostrophe4.tiff show how the text moves as it
is selected.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Visit the page slashdot.org
2.  Look for a story description with an apostrophe.
3.  Sometimes there will be a large space instead of an apostrophe.  It seems to
depend on the elements on the rest of the page.
Actual Results:  
See details above

Expected Results:  
Simply displayed an apostrophe.

default theme

Comment 1

[Robert Jacobson]

Attachment: shows large space instead of apostrophe

Comment 2

[Robert Jacobson]

Attachment: text moves to the right

text moves to the right as text to the left of the space is selected

Comment 3

[Robert Jacobson]

Attachment: selection removes space

Selecting up to the space will remove the space

Comment 4

[Robert Jacobson]

Attachment: overdrawn text

if the selection is extended past where the apostrohpe would normally be, the
text to the right continues to move, overdrawing other text.

Comment 5

[Greg K.]

Sounds like a dup of bug 138883.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138883 ***

Comment 6

[Moied]

verified dup-