721142 - Ensure tooltip tabstops are correct

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

The spec now says the tab width is 8:
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6120&to=6121

but post bug 358452 it seems our tab stops are 3 or maybe 4

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

It looks like we're using 8 spaces, but they're rather narrow since the font isn't fixed-width...

Comment 2

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

In that case we're OK aren't we and we can close this.

Comment 3

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Well, IE9 still renders it differently. It's unclear what exactly it renders. Maybe the spec needs an update?

Comment 4

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

If on http://hsivonen.iki.fi/test/moz/title-attribute.html I hover over "Tab size measure", it's pretty clear to me that both the latest Opera release and IE9 has tab stops every 8 spaces. However, Firefox has smaller tab stops. With the Windows 7 and Ubuntu default themes, the space in the tooltip font is about as wide as a letter.

Dão, was comment 1 based on Mac?

Comment 5

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Windows 7. To test my theory, I made the tooltip use a monospace font, which made the tabs look more like in IE9. Also, the computed -moz-tab-size is 8.

Comment 6

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Are we using the same font as IE9 is? (I assume we should be in order to conform to the platform theme.)

Comment 7

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

Looks like nobody has had a problem with this in the last 9 years.