593398 - RTL paragraphs next to floats have badly reordered text

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 588739

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

Attachment: Comparation screenshot of the affected page at calcalist.co.il

After a conversation held on #mozilla.il channel, we have found a wired scenario were paragraph text may get invalid flow. Currently I'm aware of two pages this issue appeared on, which doesn't use the same CMS, but this issue seems to be random, as we were unable to find what could be causing this.

When running the text through uniview, I found that there is no hidden direction control characters (rlm/lrm/lre/rle/lro/rlo/pdf), and there doesn't seems to be any unusual stylesheet directive such as unicode-bidi. 

By copying the paragraph text to a seperated page in order to create a minimized testcase, this issue seems to disappear.

I've tested few releases, and this issue seems to appear somewhere in between 1.9.2 and 1.9.3a1.


Affected pages: 
http://www.calcalist.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3416684,00.html
http://www.whatsup.org.il/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=6723

If you find another bug with the same issues, please mark this one as duplicate. I was unable to find one...

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Regression range:

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=aa800589db70&tochange=07e74f1f0561

Looks like bug 525740?

Comment 2

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

This is the same issue as bug 588739, but with floats instead of absolute positioning. The patch there fixes both of these two pages also.

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Fixed by bug 588739. A reftest would be good.

Comment 4

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The bug assignee didn't login in Bugzilla in the last 7 months, so the assignee is being reset.

Comment 5

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

According to comment 3, this was fixed.