66382 - missing line in "g" when underlined

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

This is a weird bug, if it is a bug:

If you go to:
http://gemal.dk/card/
and check the email address "[e-mail]".
In Netscape 4.x the "g" renders with the lower line of the "g" under the link 
line. In Mozilla the lower line of the "g" is not there!
I'll attach a screenshot of both netscape 4.x and mozilla.

Build 20010123

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

Attachment: screenshot of "g" and "@" with underline

Comment 2

[Warner Young]

This is probably because Mozilla is using a slightly smaller font.  You can tell
by looking at the "m", the @, and a couple of the other letters.  I don't know
exactly *why* Mozilla uses smaller fonts, though.

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Mozilla also draws the underline itself, after getting the position and
thickness from the font metrics.  We could be doing something wrong there
(like drawing the thickness on the wrong side of the position).  Is the
underline in the right place when the font is really big?

Comment 4

[Henrik Gemal]

According to the layout newsgroup, where I also posted this problem, it seems to 
be a problem with the different font sizes used in netscape and mozilla.
Perhaps this is not a bug after all. But it looks really stupid.

Comment 5

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Could you attach a screenshot of the same thing with really big fonts?

Comment 6

[Henrik Gemal]

what do you mean by "really big fonts". just font size=+20 ?

Comment 7

[Chris Petersen]

Changing from clayton to karnaze

Comment 8

[karnaze (gone)]

Marking future and reassigning to erik.

Comment 9

[Frank Tang]

erik resign. reassign all his bug to ftang for now.

Comment 10

[Frank Tang]

mark all future new as assigned after move from erik to ftang

Comment 11

[Henrik Gemal]

is this win only?
it's quite weird. The webaddress looks like it says "qemal.dk" and not "gemal.dk
because of the missing lower line of the "g"

Comment 12

[Aaron Kaluszka]

well on 2002041103/WinXP the underline is now _below_ the g

Comment 13

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Any idea when it changed?  I suspect it was due to bug 76097 changes.

Comment 14

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

... in fact, probably be the exact change within that patch that caused bug
136935, so don't mark fixed/wfm quite yet.

Comment 15

[Aaron Kaluszka]

That's what I was thinking.. I almost submitted comment 12 as a bug until I
found bug 76097.

Comment 16

[Frank Tang]

what a hack. I have not touch mozilla code for 2 years. I didn't read these bugs
for 2 years. And they are still there. Just close them as won't fix to clean up.

Comment 17

[Travis Chase]

Marking works for me. in accordance with the last few comments, besides site is
dead and it just looks like a small font issue