Open Bug 757616 Opened 12 years ago Updated 2 years ago

adding text to small document causes font inflation to be enabled

Categories

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox14 --- affected
firefox15 --- affected
blocking-fennec1.0 --- -

People

(Reporter: kbrosnan, Unassigned)

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Details

(Whiteboard: readability) 

I was asked to file a new bug instead of reopening bug 747857. Which fixed the multiline case but not the single line case.


Steps to reproduce:
- Visit testcase
- Type a letter (for example 'q') a couple of times


Expected result:
- The text input stays at the same size

Actual result:
- The text input suddenly grows in size after typing 8 times the letter 'q'.

Reproduce this on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the Samsung Galaxy SII

See also video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgrpchjAtWQ

This regressed between 2012-04-17 and 2012-04-18, regression from bug 706193, I think.
Confirmed that this is reproducible on desktop as well, so it's probably a core layout bug.
Component: General → Layout
OS: Android → All
Product: Fennec Native → Core
QA Contact: general → layout
Hardware: ARM → All
This has nothing to do with the text input -- it's adding text to the document.
Summary: Text input suddenly grows in size after typing certain amount of characters → adding text to small document causes font inflation to be enabled
This is basically as-designed, except that perhaps we should make text that doesn't get inflated not contribute to the threshold.
Whiteboard: readability
I don't think this should be a blocker.
blocking-fennec1.0: + → ?
blocking-fennec1.0: ? → -
(In reply to David Baron [:dbaron] from comment #3)
> This is basically as-designed, except that perhaps we should make text that
> doesn't get inflated not contribute to the threshold.

The patch in bug 760098 comment 9 should do this.
Severity: normal → S3
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