896592 - Some text on mtv.de is not shown

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Christian Ascheberg]

Some of the text on mtv.de is not shown in Firefox.
It is a regression, rev d671f193a5da is good, rev 56423bbe9a13 is bad.
When I open the web developer inspector (and select an element), all the text will appear.

Comment 1

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

I can reproduce this on OS X, too; setting platform to All.

I notice that the CSS being used on mtv.de to load the fonts (the file fonts.css) is incorrect. The @font-face rules include a src: descriptor with a data-URL woff font, but then they have a second src: descriptor with the data-URL (uncompressed) truetype data, which overrides the woff one. As such, the truetype data is always used, and the woff data, although included in the file, is worthless.

The correct way to provide multiple formats within a @font-face rule is to list multiple resources within a -single- src: descriptor (as the fonts.css file does for the truetype and svg formats). Then the browser should use the first supported one it finds in the list. So if you have some kind of contact with the site, you might like to offer this feedback.

However, this doesn't explain why the text is appearing blank when the page is initially loaded; that indeed appears to be a regression from bug 879963.

Comment 3

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

This should be fixed when today's Nightly (2013-07-24) appears, since bug 879963 was backed out.

Comment 4

[Tim Martin]

I was encountering this bug at http://rpg.stackexchange.com/, and can confirm that today's nightly (2013-07-24) fixes it for me.

Comment 5

[u123541]

Fixed for me too.

Comment 6

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

Resolving as fixed (by the backout of 879963).