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marco: Firefox 3 still has this annoying text-rendering bug for me. This is the complete source of my test page: <html> <body> Look at the so/urce code to this. </body> </html> It converts o/ to ø, plus a few other similar bugs. Am I the only one seeing this? This might be related to the Twitter random-spaces-in-words bug: does this say “for th e Underworld” in Firefox 3 for you? (Note that the offending space in “th e” isn’t in the HTML source.) /o doesn’t happen on Linux (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2009010110 Gentoo Firefox/3.0.5). Th e does.

marco:

Firefox 3 still has this annoying text-rendering bug for me.

This is the complete source of my test page:

<html>
<body>
Look at the so/urce code to this.
</body>
</html>

It converts o/ to ø, plus a few other similar bugs. Am I the only one seeing this?

This might be related to the Twitter random-spaces-in-words bug: does this say “for th e Underworld” in Firefox 3 for you? (Note that the offending space in “th e” isn’t in the HTML source.)

/o doesn’t happen on Linux (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2009010110 Gentoo Firefox/3.0.5). Th e does.

Reblogged 3 years ago from marco
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  1. montoya reblogged this from marco and added:
    on Vista doesn’t have these bugs. Weird huh?
  2. perelson reblogged this from marco and added:
    Update (Soon after...was posted): Twitter fixed the page template and removed the...
  3. jaytee reblogged this from marco and added:
    My coworker encountered...problem not too long ago....do...
  4. shabdar reblogged this from marco and added:
    Interesting! Works...me just fine though! (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5;...
  5. bdotdub reblogged this from marco and added:
    It’s working fine...FF3 on a Mac… my user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X...
  6. mihai reblogged this from marco and added:
    The Twitter thing...some poor wrapping attempt by them.
  7. dseymore reblogged this from marco and added:
    /o doesn’t happen on Linux (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2009010110 Gentoo Firefox/3.0.5)....
  8. tedroden reblogged this from marco and added:
    twitter page, it does indeed have that break. I’m guessing twitter...intentionally...
  9. pilnick reblogged this from marco and added:
    “o/” bug only happens on Macs....renders fine on Windows and Linux. The Twitter bug...
  10. adeandabet reblogged this from marco and added:
    don’t know what your code-speak means, Marco, but I’m liking
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