531992 - dash or hyphen (not in html) displaying at end of paragraphs closing with </p>

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Joshua Bauchner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en; rv:1.9.0.15) Gecko/2009102617 Camino/2.0 (MultiLang) (like Firefox/3.0.15)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en; rv:1.9.0.15) Gecko/2009102617 Camino/2.0 (MultiLang) (like Firefox/3.0.15)

A small dash or hyphen displays at the end of paragraphs which are closed with an end paragraph tag (</p>). These dashes or hyphens only display in Camino 2-- they do not display in Camino 1.6.10 or Firefox 3.5.3 (though when Firefox 3.5 was first released last spring, I noticed a similar problem which resolved itself after some time).

This problem does not occur with paragraphs ending with a carriage return (<br>) and is inconsistent with paragraphs ending with </p>. It may be related to extra <p> or </p> tags in the html (generated by the cms); but this does not seem to pose a problem for other browsers or earlier versions of Camino.

When I select and copy the character and paste into the find field in Camino nothing appears. Ditto when trying to paste into text edit. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the linked site (or any page on www.cabinetmagazine.org)
2. Look for hyphens/dashes at the end of paragraphs
3.
Actual Results:  
Saw the hyphens in question.

Expected Results:  
Should not have displayed any extra characters not in the HTML.

Comment 1

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

There are literal soft hyphen (U+00AD) characters in the text where they appear; opening the document in something that shows control characters, like TextWrangler, makes them visible where view-source does not.  Normally control characters should not be visible (and ­ when not needed), but Gecko seems to render them regardless.  I suspect, based on your comments about Firefox 3.5.x, that this bug was fixed along the way in Gecko 1.9.1.x.

WFM unless philippe can find the dupe, or he tells me I'm wrong ;)

Comment 2

[philippe (part-time)]

Hmm. Puzzling one. I had to download TextWrangler to see them. No other texteditor would show them on 10.6.2.:-(

­ should be (mostly) supported by Camino 2 (bug 9101 landed a long time ago). This _could_ be something like bug 476378 though, not sure.

Comment 3

[philippe (part-time)]

(In reply to comment #2)
This _could_ be something like bug 476378 though, not sure.

It wasn't that bug that fixed the issue. on the linked page, with Gecko 1.9.1a.x, the problem disappeared somewhere between the 20080801 and 20080901 builds.

I'll mark this WFM, per comment 1

Comment 4

[philippe (part-time)]

for the record, probably
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406299#c4
(last 2 paragraphs)

Comment 5

[Joshua Bauchner]

This all makes sense. When will Gecko 1.9.1 build 20080901 be integrated into Camino 2?