434495 - FF3 for Windows doesn't take account of <strong> tag

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Laurent Bauvens]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0

In a simple web page, FF3 (B5 & RC1) displays correctly the <strong> html tag.

But in certain more complex cases, it doesn't take care of this. The issue can be seen with a Dokuwiki bold syntax **text** which not displayed bold. See attachment to discover what my FF3 displays.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:syntax in address zone
2. Search for bold text
Actual Results:  
Bold text is not displayed bold

Expected Results:  
Bold text is displayed bold

Bold text of the dokuwiki page is correctly displayed with FF 2.0.0.14, IE7, Safari Beta for Windows and even in FF3b5 for Linux (Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron).

Comment 1

[Laurent Bauvens]

Attachment: Issue snapshots with FF3rc1 and FF2.0.0.14

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: testcase

Laurent, can you see the bug with this testcase?

Comment 3

[Laurent Bauvens]

YES. Good job ! The line which should be bold is not bold. 

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Ok, let's confirm this bug, although I haven't been able to reproduce this myself yet. (I currently have trouble removing fonts in my fonts directory)
Apparently, with the fonts you have installed (there is a list of installed fonts in the zipped file attached to the bug), the font fallback code for bold Lucida Grande doesn't work well.

Comment 5

[Doug Wright]

I can't reproduce this on Vista (no Lucida Grande)

Comment 6

[Laurent Bauvens]

I confirm (if it's yet necessary) that the problem comes from the font Lucida-Grande. I removed it from the fonts folder and bold characters are back in Dokuwiki and in Martijn's testcase. Generally, standard fonts are developed into 4 files (normal, bold, italic and bold italic) and I only have the 'normal' font file. 
But this doesn't explain why FF2 and other browsers work fine despite the fact that the weak font is present.

Would you like to have the font file to reproduce the problem ? If yes, tell me where I can upload it safely.

Comment 7

[Mike Schroepfer]

Stuart can you help find the right owner and priority of this bug?

Comment 8

[Damon Sicore (:damons)]

This is a mac font on windows that most people don't have (per stuart), -'ing this (also, WFM on stuart's machine).

wanted1.9.0.x+

Comment 9

[Jack Yan]

I am having the same issue on Firefox 4 Beta 12 on Windows XP; have not yet tried it on Vista. Not sure if I should be adding attachments here though, as this is quite an old bug report.

Comment 10

[Karl Tomlinson (:karlt)]

Jack, if you have an example where <strong> behaved as expected in Firefox 3.x, but not in Firefox 4, then please file a new bug.

Comment 11

[Jack Yan]

Thank you, Karl, I will do this.

Comment 12

[Benoit Jacob [:bjacob] (mostly away)]

Testcase is working here, firefox 11, linux x86-64.