For some reason Cairo displays bold text as normal text. It doesn't react to <b></b> <b><img src="/img/pijl_trans.gif" alt="" border="0" height="9" hspace="4" vspace="0" width="4"> <a class="link" href="/news/662409/10/Ongevallen_door_spekgladde_wegen.html"> Ongevallen door spekgladde wegen</a> </b>

It also doesnt react to the <strong> tag. Another thing: your second testcase actually shows bold text while everything else isn't.

testcase with <b> and <strong> tag

Please don't change the summary so drastically. Want to be able to recognize my own bugs. Thanks.

Ria, <span style="font-weight:bold"> ... </span> works fine in Cairo builds so the current discription leaves room for misinterpretation. That's why I changed it.

The first two lines of comment #0 leave no room for misunderstanding. There are no other bugs about bold text in Cairo. Editing the summary was not necessary. But thanks for the effort anyway.

temporary hack to get the bold letters: add the following lines to userContent.css b, strong { font-weight:bold !important; }

Firefox/Cairo does not seem to be able to understand "font-size:bolder" (The default font-weight for <b> and <strong> is "bolder", not "bold".)

(In reply to comment #9) > Created an attachment (id=213305) [edit] > testcase normal/bold/bolder > > Firefox/Cairo does not seem to be able to understand "font-size:bolder" > > (The default font-weight for <b> and <strong> is "bolder", not "bold".) > read: http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/testcases/css/fontproperties.html

(In reply to comment #9) > Firefox/Cairo does not seem to be able to understand "font-size:bolder" Sorry, I meant "font-weight:bolder;" Some other strage things: font-weight:900 works So the rendeing engine _can_ draw it. font-weight:bolder in a font-weight:bold span is bold If this would be a rendeing problem then probably there would be an normal unbold text. So I suppose the bug is somewhere in the CSS-Parser or so and for some strange reason font-weight:bolder is ignored. When ispecting a font-weight:bolder span with DOMI, it says in the computed style "font-weight:401". That seems to be very stange abecause a bold text (not bolder) has really has "bold" as value in DOMI and 401 is a value that is even lighter than normal. (500 is default, 100 is very light, 900 is very bold).

this should fix most of the bold problems. we need to do some global font cache thing on windows where we can cache this info so we don't have to GetTextMetrics, etc every time.

i'm gonna say this is fixed.

All the testcases WFM and a few websites I tried.