57709 - OS/2 - Jiggly Text When Selecting in Browser Window

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Barry Marshall]

Jiggly Text...  Sounds like a new Pokemon, right?  Not really.

Drag select some text in the browser window.  Notice how the font 
jiggles the characters to the right of what you select.

It doesn't crash the browser, but it's weird, since no other 
application I have does this.

Comment 1

[Barry Marshall]

Oh, this is with 1020 on my usual TP770X, 1024 * 768 * 32 bpp, SDD.
(Trying out Mike's new template for bug reports).

Comment 2

[slaquinta]

SCREENED.  VERIFIED AS VALID.

Comment 3

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Fix checked in.

Comment 4

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Wrong defect

Comment 5

[Barry Marshall (at work)]

Re-confirmed still broken under 1114.

Comment 6

[Barry Marshall (at work)]

Behaviour is better under 1121.  The font now only jiggles when I'm using the
default monospace font.

Comment 7

[Barry Marshall (at work)]

...and happens with Courier New, but not with Courier.

Is this a Postscript vs. TrueType problem?

Comment 8

[Jeffrey S. Kobal]

No, it's a bitmap font vs. non-bitmap font problem.

Comment 9

[Barry Marshall]

So Mozilla doesn't like bitmap fonts?  I'm just looking to clean up the summary.

Comment 10

[achimha]

This is a permanent restriction caused by an incompatibility between the
Mozilla GFX layer and OS/2 GPI. The whole is more/less than the sum of the
elements...

Comment 11

[Barry Marshall]

If that's the case, then it should be noted as a Release Note for the next OS/2 
milestone build and subsequent releases.

I'll hold this bug in this state for Mike or Jeffrey to set Verify then.

Comment 12

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

verify.

we can't fix this.

Os/2 limitation