208530 - Cursor positioned in wrog place in text box when using proportional font.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Yaron Solomonovich]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

While typing proportional font in a textbox the cursor is misplaced some times.
It is positioned one blank after the correct place.
This happens when the following conditions are fulfilled.
1. Immediately after typing a narrow character (ex. i,l,r or blank).
2. An even number of narrow characters have been typed since the beginning of
the line.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Choose Times new roman font.
Type a continuous sequence of iiiii in the url text box at the top of the
browser window.

Actual Results:  
After typing an even number of i's, the cursor is shifted one blank to the right.

Expected Results:  
dah...

Comment 1

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

WFM on WinXP 2003060409.

Comment 2

[Bob]

W98SE, 1.3.1, 1.4RC1: can't reproduce

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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