193404 - wingdings and webdings stopped working as style properties between 1.2.1 and 1.3b

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Jon Sala]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

If webdings or wingdings are used in <font face=> tags, they render properly.
If used as style properties or in style sheets, they revert to the default font.

<table border="1" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td>Font</td><Td>font tag</TD><Td>style</TD></tr>
<tr><td>Wingdings</td><Td><font face="Wingdings">ü</font></TD><Td><span
style="font-family: wingdings;">ü</span></TD></tr>
<tr><td>webdings</td><Td><font face="webdings">ü</font></TD><Td><span
style="font-family: webdings;">ü</span></TD></tr>
<tr><td>arial</td><Td><font face="arial">ü</font></TD><Td><span
style="font-family: arial;">ü</span></TD></tr>
<tr><td>tahoma</td><Td><font face="tahoma">ü</font></TD><Td><span
style="font-family: tahoma;">ü</span></TD></tr>


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see URL or table above
2.or http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/column30/3.html
3.

Actual Results:  
Same results

Expected Results:  
render wingdings and webdings as per previous mozilla versions.

Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

This is correct behaviour.

Comment 2

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

verified-this really shouldn't work, but there's some bizarre hackery for
presentational HTML (<font face>). If you're able to use CSS to do styles, you
should be using Unicode character references (&#number;) for this sort of thing,
AIUI.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 195059 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

You can look up the correct numbers to use here:

   http://www.unicode.org/charts/

If you want a check mark you look under the Dingbats table:

   http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2700.pdf

...and find that it is U+2713 or U+2714 (for a heavy one). You then use it in
HTML like this:

   ✓

Comment 5

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 244789 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

*** Bug 285462 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Sebastian Winkler]

So this basically renders the use of dingbat fonts like webdings and wingdings — the only fonts that contain some symbols that come pre-installed on Windows (at least on XP) — all but impossible, as those fonts don't use proper glyph mapping.