Closed
Bug 617007
Opened 15 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
Helvetica Font Style Rendering Change with OS 10.6.5 Update
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(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)
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RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 611855
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(Reporter: aguyawry, Unassigned)
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_5; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.44 Safari/534.7
Build Identifier: 3.6.12
After a Mac OS X update from 10.6.4 to 10.6.5, I noticed Helvetica fonts rendering differently with the same CSS style applied. See the Reproduction instructions below. Previous to the OS 10.6.5 update, the example code would render a font without an italic style. After the update the font is rendered with an italic style.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Create a html test page with the code below. Have it render on machines with 10.6.4 and 10.6.5.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Font Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
body{
font-family:Helvetica;
font-size:62.5%;
}
h1, p{
font-size:1.6em;
font-weight:200;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a font test!</h1>
<p>This is a font test!</p>
</body>
</html>
Actual Results:
10.6.4 page renders in a non-italic font for both tags. 10.6.5 page renders in italic font.
Expected Results:
I would expect the 10.6.5 version to render in a non-italic font.
- I have tried this on multiple systems (pre and post 10.6.5) and checked that the fonts are not corrupt.
- Font weights up to 300 seem to have this issue.
- Font size does not seem to matter.
- Other browsers on the same system do not seem to render in italic. Only notice this in Firefox.
- Only the Helvetica font seems effected.
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Comment 1•15 years ago
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Testcase from comment 0 attached for convenience.
Does this occur using a clean profile ( http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing%20profiles ) and also when using safe mode ( http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe%20Mode )?
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Comment 2•15 years ago
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This is caused by an OS X bug introduced in the 10.6.5 update (see bug 611855, comment 10), but we have added a workaround, so this should be fixed in 3.6.13 and current trunk builds.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Awesome. Sorry for the dupe. Guess my search criteria when looking for this existing problem wasn't that great. Thank you for your help.
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