[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 14921] No normal value for font-weight available in CSS.

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14921





------- Comment #1 from jab_creations at yahoo.com  2007-08-09 14:05 PDT -------
Attempting to "recomment" this bug as I decided to post it with Safari. Unable
to copy the text, CRITICAL BUG (see bug 14922).

Webkit does not correctly render normal text font-weight. Bug 14196 is an
example of unwillingness to conform to standards. I am unable to set the
font-weight to anything less then 500 or to normal. You folks are welcomed to
set different default CSS styling to websites in Safari, but you are most
unwelcome to not allow normal behavior. The text is bold and there is no way
around that reality or argument. The font-smoothing user-only-option does not
fix this nor is there any method to manipulate this through CSS.

These property/value combos need to be fixed!
font-weight: normal;
font-weight: 400;
font-weight: 300;
font-weight: 200;
font-weight: 100;

This issue directly effects sites such as mine that take aggressive advantage
of CSS 2. The word Philosophy in one of the main menus has an added three
pixels of width. If I were to add additional menus (while still maintaining an
800x600 minimal support policy) Safari would render the text (by default)
outside of the parent block-level element while other browsers would still
correctly render the text. Making the text smaller with a secondary stylesheet
does not count as standards compliant/cross-browser compatible.

Hopefully this post WILL actually be posted this time.


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