315732 - Small-caps causes bold uppercase letters

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Win32, defect)

Description

[Jerry Baker]

20051107 trunk

The following text displays with an initial capital that is bold while the rest of the text is normal:

<h1 style="font-variant:small-caps">Heading</h1>

Small-caps should not cause a capitalized letter to appear bold.

From the CSS 1 specification (5.2.4), and the CSS 2.1 specification (15.5):

"In a small-caps font the lower case letters look similar to the uppercase ones, but in a smaller size and with slightly different proportions."

Comment 1

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

By definition, all H1 text is bold. Are you sure that this just isn't due to you using a different font that makes it seem more apparent?

Comment 2

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

And for what it's worth, I see no obvious difference between the font-weight of the letters in your example, using today's trunk build on Windows and the testcase in the URL field.

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

All the letters should be bold. It's just that the small-caps ones are a smaller size and so you don't notice that they are bold. (This isn't a problem if you have a font installed that actually has a small-caps variant.)

Comment 4

[Jerry Baker]

That is not what is happening. Look at the test case.

Comment 5

[Jerry Baker]

Attachment: Small-caps demo

Comment 6

[Jerry Baker]

If it is only because everything is bold, then Gecko is still breaking the specs anyway. They state that the small-caps and capital letter should appear the same except for proportion.

Comment 7

[Jerry Baker]

Attachment: Small-caps on <p> tag

Still happens with a <p> tag also.

Comment 8

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

That's due to the characteristics of the font, it's not a Mozilla rendering issue. Try it out in Word or any other app if you don't believe me.

Comment 9

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

Also, the spec doesn't say "that the small-caps and capital letter should appear
the same except for proportion", it says "the lower case letters look similar to the uppercase ones, but in a smaller size and with slightly different proportions".