296937 - long ACRONYM title is clipped without human-sense = clipped by pixel borders

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[tachyon.eagle]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050606 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050606 Firefox/1.0+

I've just added several <acronym title="..."> into my pages, and I have found
out that if the title content is too long, browser will clip it, fine..., but it
adds three dots at the end , so if the content is exactly 1 character above
limit, it's cut and three dots are displayed instead of it .

I have found out that Mozilla / Firefox (latest snapshots) define the border
exactly with pixels, not characters. 

But for human-beings, I think that displaying "91%" is better than "91..." ,
even if that dotted may be 1 pixel shorter ....

It may also be same for <abbr> tag, but such a long content si not probable
within it's title.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make acronym title long just to be clipped from last character


Actual Results:  
last character is clipped and three dots are displayed instead of it 

Expected Results:  
displayed the last character,even if it have to enlarge border area a few pixels ,
or clip more reasonably , the last word or more characters for example

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Wouldn't a fix to bug 45375 be a better solution, aka, _the_ solution?

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060829 Firefox/1.5.0.7
wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060922 BonEcho/2.0
wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060919 SeaMonkey/1.1b
tested on testcase http://desitka.sh.cvut.cz/~quentar/testacr.htm
Feel free to reopen if bug still seen on trunk