281621 - Lines under hypertext links are sometimes rendered too thick

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Jamie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050126
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050126

This is an intermittant problem.  When Mozilla underlines the text
indicating a hyperlink, usually it is a one-pixel wide horizontal line.
However, sometimes it becomes a 2-pixel wide horizontal line, which
doesn't look very nice.  It seems to occur more with link text that is
in bold, but it also happens for link text that is not bold.
I have even seen it happen on www.google.com.  Sometimes a reload
will make the link line shrink from 2 pixels to one pixel in width,
but more often that not, it won't help.  This happens on many
web pages, sometimes very often, sometimes rarely.  It's very
unpredictable and seems independant of the site in question.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
Because it is intermittant, there is no recipe to reproduce it.
It just happens when loading some web pages.  Sometimes a particular
web page has one pixel underlined links, other times that same
page will be rendered with thicker
2 pixel underlined hypertext links.


Expected Results:  
Links should only be underlined with a line of thickness of one pixel

This problem didn't happen in Mozilla 1.4.

I then upgraded to Mozilla 1.8 alpha 5, and it appeared from
then up until the current version I am using now,
which is build 2005012601.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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