65494 - <acronym> isn't rendered correctly

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 59825

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Mark Slater]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010114
BuildID:    2001011420

The w3, out of courtesy, adds <acronym> to text and some links. So one can see
where the acronyms actually ARE, mozilla adds a dotted line. It seems that Moz
renders the dotted line selectively. I'm seeing dotted lines over the whole word
(as it should be), then again some are just the last 3 pixels of the dotted
line, sometimes not at all.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. goto www.w3.org
2. look for "dotted line"-links or text
3. notice that some acronyms aren't fully underlined with dotted line

Actual Results:  Browser doesn't fully/properly underline <acronym>'d text.

Expected Results:  Browser should fully/properly underline <acronym>'d text.


Adding a screenshot of w3.org, as seen on my setup

Comment 1

[Mark Slater]

Attachment: W3.org, with weird <acronym> behaviour

Comment 2

[David Hallowell]

All links looks screwed up on Linux build 2001011421, attaching screenshot to
show what I mean (links only partially underlined)...

Comment 3

[David Hallowell]

Well I would post the screenshot if I was able to :/
I seem to be having problems attaching the image at the moment...

Comment 4

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

marking new (2001011320 win98) to get off the unco list

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is a duplicate of the bug about link underlining on w3.org.  Ironically,
that is an evangelism bug...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59825 ***

Comment 6

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

no bug here, it's their fault! :-)

Comment 7

[Aaron Kaluszka]

How is this a DUP of 59825?  Wasn't that bug a link underlining issue, not an
acronym (link) underlining issue?

Comment 8

[Aaron Kaluszka]

How is this a DUP of 59825?  Wasn't that bug a link underlining issue, not an
acronym (link) underlining issue?

Comment 9

[timeless]

read Additional Comments From Boris Zbarsky 2000-11-12 00:57.

It might help to note that the underlining they're talking about is actually 
abbreviation underlining and not link underlining. See pictures...

Comment 10

[Aaron Kaluszka]

I see nothing about acro, and the testcases are just about the regular 
hyperlink underlining.

Comment 11

[Aaron Kaluszka]

I see that that bug is related to WHY its happening, but the issues themselves 
are different, aren't they?  We're talking about a different underline at a 
different location.

Comment 12

[timeless]

bah. it'd help a lot if you spent the time to read the bug.

Abbreviation underlines appear beneath regular underlines but don't give bonus 
points to line height.  the result is that the text box from the next line has 
an even better chance of eating into the abbreviation underline.

If you need more help I suggest you ask on irc or contact the relevant parties 
directly.