Closed Bug 1461207 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Interrupt underline where text crosses it, to avoid striking through descenders

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(Core :: Layout: Block and Inline, enhancement)

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normal

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1019448

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(Reporter: u450280, Unassigned)

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(Keywords: parity-chrome)

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0 Build ID: 20180510160705 Steps to reproduce: This is a feature currently available in Google Chrome, and which I would love to see in Firefox as well. To see what I mean, here's the exact page where I noticed how nicely Chrome handles this situation. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Pomac30&oldid=841031519#Proposed_deletion_of_Kortney_Kane Hovering your mouse over "Kortney Kane" will underline the text. Doing so in Chrome avoids underlining the "y", which would otherwise be partly striked through by the underline. Firefox currently just mindlessly ignores this typography detail. Here's another page I had printed today with Chrome: https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/single/bgnet.html It's the table of contents that makes the difference obvious. Wherever text crosses the underline, the underline is interrupted to avoid having a negative impact on legibility. There might be languages (Arabic perhaps?) containing horizontal lines that look really bad when wrongly striked through. Actual results: Expected results:
Attached image firefox-bad.png (deleted) —
Bad example: Firefox
Attached image chrome-good.png (deleted) —
Good Example: Chrome
Severity: normal → enhancement
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Has STR: --- → yes
Closed: 6 years ago
Component: Untriaged → Layout: Block and Inline
Keywords: parity-chrome
OS: Unspecified → All
Product: Firefox → Core
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Summary: Interrupt underline where text crosses it, to avoid striking through text → Interrupt underline where text crosses it, to avoid striking through descenders
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