Created by Jared Momose (jmomose@casefinder.com) on Tuesday, June 30, 1998 2:30:24 PM PDT Additional Details : There is not a separate section for "logical" bugs, so Ill present my case in this section. This bug is deals with text and attribute changing when a document is displayed on a screen. From what I have seen, when Netscape loads and displays documents on the screen, it sets up a "Font Stack" to do its attribute changing. Say you change the current text in a document to bold; Netscape pushes the current font onto a stack and uses that font + bold for the new font. The problem comes when you have a line like the following. text <B> text <I> text </B> text </I> text When the </B> tag appears, the font stack is popped, and a previous font is retrieved. However, this previous font does not have bold turned off, but rather has italics turned off! If you are following me, take it one step further. Try putting a <FONT COLOR="#mycolor"> in the above html line and modifying it such that a different attribute is turned off before the color is. Another question arises: "who would do such a thing as overlap font attributes?". Well....me! I would love to hear some input from mozilla developers, especially reasons *why* this "Font Stack" was implemented into the browser. (Am I missing something? Is it faster than other techniques for formatting and displaying a doc? Easier?) Jared Momose. Geronimo Developement Corp.

Would this be legal HTML: <b> text <i> text </b> more text </i>

Off the top of my head, I'd say that that is invalid HTML. I'll check the spec. Accepting bug...

not sure if this is still relevant in new codebase... if not feel free to close

per leger, assigning QA contacts to all open bugs without QA contacts according to list at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Browser

I just checked out "<B> bold <I> bold-italic </B> italic </I>" in Gecko. The "italic" text gets rendered in normal font while IE 5 renders it in italic font. I remember Rick had ideas on how to deal with this case, so I'm ccing him. Also, ccing Harish, the in-process-of-becoming parser guru. Setting milestone to M7 for now...

This is a classic case of Residual-Style problem. In the example, <B> bold <I> bold-italic </B> italic </I>, </B> closes <I> and <B> leaving the text "italic" to be rendered in a normal font. Rickg and I are working on this problem. Reassigning the bug to myself and setting M6 milestone.

Adding nisheeth to the CC list.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 991 ***

Agreed. This is a duplicate of 991.