752429 - font size inflation causes comments to be different sizes when the comments are laid out as one float per comment

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Patrick Finch]

[marked as minor as this occurs on a desktop page]

Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100
Android 2.3.4

Web page or screen you were on when you saw the issue: 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/may/07/five-things-premier-league-weekend

Steps to reproduce:
1. Request desktop version of the page (i.e. with comments thread)
2. Scroll down to the comments on this page
3. Observe comments in different size characters

What you expected: 
Comments should all be rendered in the same size characters
Crash report ID (if applicable):

Comment 2

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

Not a direct duplicate as this one involves the use of floats for layout; not sure what to do about it, though.

Comment 3

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

And, in particular, what's unusual about it is that it involves the use of floats for layout within what appears to the user to be a single flow of text.  Each comment is in its own float, and within that the header of the comment (icon/username/date) is within another float.

Comment 4

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

I don't think there's a reasonable way to fix this that isn't going to break more than it fixes.

Comment 7

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Another example can be seen in bug 769175 -- might be a dupe of this bug.