304829 - FONT FACE with exotic fonts rendering in standards compliantce mode

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Olivier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Using Standards compliance mode rendering (eg having a DOCTYPE definition in the
HTML source file) if you have the following in your HTML:

<p>Windings <font face="Wingdings">the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy
dog</font></p>
<p>Symbol <font face="Symbol">the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy
dog</font></p>

You can replace Symbol or Wingdings with ANY exotic font on your system
the rendering engine falls back to the user define font

Now if you force the Quirks mode rendering (eg removing the DOCTYPE definition
inthe HTML)
the fonts are rendered correctly

it's really a matter of ANY exotic font, not only Symbol or Wingdings


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
the bug is reproductible all the time

Actual Results:  
rendering differes
Quirks mode seems to find the fonts where as Standards compliance mode does not.

Expected Results:  
the rendering should be the same

Comment 1

[Josh Birnbaum]

This is supposed to only work in quirks mode.  You need to use proper Unicode
codepoints--symbolic fonts that map normal characters onto symbols are not
generally supported.  (Wingdings in quirks mode is one exception).

Marking invalid.