387117 - [10.5] Problem with variable-width font

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Guillaume Boudreau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070531 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070531 Firefox/2.0.0.4

When a long line of text of specific sizes contains text inside a tag (span, a,  etc.), the text in this tag will get over the previous text.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
* text with spaces (the more spaces there is, the worst it gets)
* any non-fixed-width font-family
* any font-size other than 12px, 14px, 18px, 20px, 24px... (I used 13px below)
* any tag at the end of a line of text (I used a <span/> below)
Actual Results:  
The text within the tag at the end of the line gets over the previous text.

Comment 1

[Guillaume Boudreau]

Attachment: Test case to reproduce

Comment 2

[Guillaume Boudreau]

Attachment: Screenshot of how it looks in Leopard

I didn't test this in Tiger or any other version of Mac OS X, but I'm pretty sure it's specific to Leopard.
Also, this doesn't appear in GranParadiso or Minefield.

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

If it doesn't appear in GP or Minefield (does it happen in Camino-trunk?), it's likely this is a dupe of an already-fixed bug that may not ever be fixed on the 1.8 branch.

Comment 4

[Colin Barrett [:cbarrett]]

cl, can you dupe this against that bug?

Comment 5

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Since I don't have access to 10.5, I'm probably not the best person to evaluate a proper resolution for this bug.

Comment 6

[Colin Barrett [:cbarrett]]

Sam, can you dupe this re: comment 3 ?

Comment 7

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

I'm not sure what bug would have fixed this, so let's just resolve it as WORKSFORME.

Guillaume, this will be fixed in Firefox 3 / Camino 2.