346578 - text spacing of certain (bold?) text on certain pages not rendered correctly

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Camino Graveyard :: Page Layout, defect)

Description

[Eugene Motoyama]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060728 Camino/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060728 Camino/1.0+

The spacing between the letters in certain text is irregular, and changes when window is resized.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. View http://www.caminobrowser.org (for example)
2. The bold text paragraph under "Why Use Camino?" starting with "The Camino Project has worked..." is rendered incorrectly (for example)
3. Resize window to see the spacing shift unnaturally

Actual Results:  
The spacing between the letters is irregular

Expected Results:  
View the same page in (for example) Safari, and the spacing is better.  Resizing window in Safari doesn't cause spacing to change.

Comment 1

[Eugene Motoyama]

Attachment: screenshot: www.caminobrowser.org rendered with Camino

Shows the text rendering problem

Comment 2

[Eugene Motoyama]

Attachment: screenshot: www.caminobrowser.org rendered in Safari

Text rendered correctly in Safari

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This is Lucida Grande, whose metrics are so-so under the best of situations.  I think the remaining differences between Gecko and WebKit are covered by existing bugs....

Comment 4

[cannedbrain+mozilla]

It's not just bold texts but also some pages written in some languages, examples:
http://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaca_Utama (Javanese)
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kezd%C5%91lap (Hungarian)

Switching to Helvetica cures it though. Here are a couple of screen shots:
http://osx.fea.st/06/camino_helve.png (in Helvetica)
http://osx.fea.st/06/camino_lgrande.png (in Lucida Grande)

Comment 5

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

Yeah, given comment 3 and that changing fonts fixes this, I think that this bug is covered by a) Lucida Grande's 'uniqueness' and b) existing Webkit vs. Gecko rendering bugs.  INVALID.