45367 - Regression in text legibility

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 47154

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Verified with the latest (07/12) builds on Mac and Win98:

- Go to the URL above.
- Look at the text under the 2nd paragraph ("The Goal").
==> Many spaces are missing between words, for instance: "conventionin", 
"toAmericans", "beenconvinced", "anunable", etc...

The problem appears all over the article but it is particularly visible in the 
2nd and the last paragraph.

This regression appeared sometime between the 06/22 build and the 06/28 build.

Comment 1

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Attachment: a copy of the ABCNEWS page

Comment 2

[Matthew Dean]

I have been able to confirm this bug on several of the www.abcnews.go.com
articles including their hacker kevin mitnick ones ;)
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/hacker000713.html

It actually appears to be in the HTML code itself, FBI and on are joined,
looking at the HTML source it appears as:

The computer hacker who led the FBI 
on a three-year manhunt while allegedly causing millions of dollars

so FBI and on are actually joined together. ie, FBIon Tho when I highlight and
paste the text directly from the web page, it appears as:

FBI on a three-year manhunt while allegedly causing millions of dol

But displayed on webpage it looks like

The computer hacker who led the FBIon a three-year manhunt while allegedly
causing millions of

Comment 3

[Matthew Dean]

Oh yeah, I'm running 2000071221 on Linux 2.2.16 Slackware 7.1

Comment 4

[Pierre Saslawsky]

The HTML is correct. "FBI" and "on" are separated by a 0x0A. The problem is that 
some of these 0x0As result in a space and some don't. I haven't been able to find 
a logic in that. For instance in the first paragraph, we have "usenext" and 
"publicperception" without space while "Gore campaign" and "Daley said" do have a 
space. If you select "usenext", copy it and paste it into another application, 
you end up with "use nex", meaning that the content is correct; it's just the 
rendering that sometimes isn't.

Comment 5

[Matthew Dean]

ok, yeah, sounds about right, but for some reason when i view source it treats
that 0x0A as a carriage return :) 

Comment 6

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Endorsing for nsbeta3 stopper as this is a correctness of rendering bug on
top100 sites that renders text unreadable
(unlessyoudon'tmindreadingEnglishwithoutspaces).

Comment 7

[Pierre Saslawsky]

CCd Ian. The two bugs that could be related to this one are bug 46631 and bug 
47154.

Comment 8

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Yup, it's a dup. Turns out the other problem is a lot more wide spread than I
had originally believed. I have found dups in i18n bugs, in font bugs, in style
bugs, in layout bugs... :-/

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47154 ***

Comment 9

[Scott Brodmerkle]

The bug this was duped against is now fixed, and I'm not seeing this behavior
anymore. Verified dupe.

Comment 10

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