551630 - words run into each other on Wikipedia with zoom

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Block and Inline, defect)

Description

[Timothy Nikkel (:tnikkel)]

When browsing Wikipedia at one full zoom level in I sometimes see words that should have a space between them but do not in the rendered page. The problem goes away on reload, and I have no steps to reproduce. The most recent occurrence happened with a 2010-03-09 nightly.

Comment 1

[Timothy Nikkel (:tnikkel)]

Attachment: screenshot showing the bug

Comment 2

[Timothy Nikkel (:tnikkel)]

Attachment: screenshot after reloading without the bug

These are screenshots of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Agassiz. In the buggy screenshot you can see "sea level riseof", whereas in the good screenshot it is "sea level rise of".

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

looks like there's also a problem in the next line.

Could there have been a reflow failure while reflowing that paragraph such that things kept old data around?

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

(I'm presuming that the screenshot is after zooming in.  Was it?)

Comment 5

[Timothy Nikkel (:tnikkel)]

I have the zoom level set one above default for Wikipedia, so I never changed the zoom level on the page, it was always one above normal.

I recently started browsing Wikipedia this way and never noticed similar bugs at default zoom so I'm thinking the zoom has something to do with it.