293773 - Bold-underline line too thick compared to other popular browsers.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Bleh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

Sometimes the underline of bolden-underlined words on a webpage looks too 
thick and upsets the overall appearance. This always happens when I do 
searches using Google. The searched keyword(s) would be bolden and underlined 
in an underlined sentence. The words not boldened have a "normal" line 
thickness. When both are coupled together it looks odd. IE6 seems to have this 
bit right.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Google.com
2. Search for anything.
3. Look at results page.

1. Open notepad.
2. Type in "<u>This looks <b>odd.</b></u>" excluding speech marks.
3. Open using Firefox latest version.

Actual Results:  
Regular type fonts have a normal thin underline thickness compared to the 
bolden word.

Expected Results:  
The bolden text, if underlined, should have an underlined thickness no 
different to ones that are unboldened.

Using default Firefox theme.

Appears to have existed since the first ever firefox version.

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

Attachment: quirks mode testcase

On 1.0.3 OS/2 & trunk Linux I see as reporter describes here, but don't see a
reason why in quirks.css.

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

Attachment: standards mode testcase

I see uniform underscore thickness on 1.0.3 on OS/2 & trunk Linux

Comment 3

[Uri Bernstein]

See bug #1777, and especially bug #1777 comment 241, which indicates this is a
WONTFIX.