301654 - At Wikipedia, sometimes the text input cursor has a weird two-pixel extension.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 288839

(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Win32, defect)

Description

[A. Lingo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050720 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050720 Firefox/1.0+

I've noticed this for a long time, but finally decided to submit a bug. Did a
search, and found no similar bugs.

When placing the text input cursor in the "search" box of Wikipedia, on some
pages the cursor has a mysterious two pixel extension. This happens on the main
page, community portal, current events, and the help & contact pages, but not in
entries, or the recent changes page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto http://en.wikipedia.org
2. Place cursor in the "search" text box
3. See weird two-pixel extension on the cursor.

Actual Results:  
Weird two-pixel-extension cursor appeared.

Expected Results:  
1px cursor is seen.

Comment 1

[A. Lingo]

Attachment: 200% image of the cursor

Sorry, I couldn't find an image program that didn't try some basic
anti-aliasing of stretched images.

Comment 2

[A. Lingo]

I've confirmed it on a standard build of Firefox 1.0.5, with the same results.
Both were with fresh profiles, with no extensions.

I can't seen to reproduce this on any other non-Wikimedia Foundation
MediaWiki-based sites. It can be see at
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising and http://en.wikiquote.org.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

I have indeed seen this. I thought for sure it would have been filed already,
but I can't find a dupe for the life of me. Confirming. A minimized testcase
that reproduces this consistently would be useful here. Just stripping stuff
away from http://en.wikipedia.org until it no longer is reproducable should do.

Comment 4

[Hermann Schwab]

I made a testcase for this in a bug sometime ago, didn't find it yet by
searching for URL wikipedia. Reason for that cursor was that in the list of
links for selecting the language were two RTL links, arabic and hebrew.

Comment 5

[Hermann Schwab]

Bug 288839 ltr caret in input field unexpected (directional caret appears when
only ltr input methods are installed)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 288839 ***