Bug 211679

Summary:

Large spaces appear between words until the text is selected

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Saagar Jha <saagar>

Component:

Text

Assignee:

zalan <zalan>

Status:

RESOLVED DUPLICATE

Severity:

Normal

CC:

jmuizelaar, mmaxfield, paul, webkit-bug-importer

Priority:

Keywords:

InRadar

Version:

Safari Technology Preview

Hardware:

Mac

OS:

macOS 10.15

Attachments:

Description	Flags
The website before I select any text, with the undesired spaces	none
The spaces go away after I select the text	none
Test reduction	none

Description Saagar Jha 2020-05-09 18:34:55 PDT

Created attachment 398951 [details]
The website before I select any text, with the undesired spaces

On some websites, like this one: https://vistaserv.net/blog/90s-fonts-modern-browsers, WebKit puts some large spaces in the middle of a paragraph. If I select the text the spaces go away and WebKit lays it out like it should be.

Comment 1 Saagar Jha 2020-05-09 18:36:16 PDT

Created attachment 398952 [details]
The spaces go away after I select the text

Comment 2 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2020-05-12 14:06:45 PDT

<rdar://problem/63153074>

Comment 3 Myles C. Maxfield 2020-07-21 22:27:39 PDT

The font doesn't support the space character, so we're falling back to LucidaGrande for that character.

Comment 4 Myles C. Maxfield 2020-07-21 22:28:13 PDT

I'm looking at this bug now.

Comment 5 Myles C. Maxfield 2020-07-21 23:32:58 PDT

Disabling simple line layout fixes this.

Comment 6 zalan 2020-07-22 06:35:37 PDT

Created attachment 404919 [details]
Test reduction

Comment 7 zalan 2020-07-22 06:39:54 PDT

I haven't looked at the code yet, but the test reduction makes me think it is a collapsed whitespace width caching issue in the fast codepath.

Comment 8 zalan 2020-07-22 19:17:38 PDT

I already have a patch on this (see bug 211680)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 211680 ***