[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 21467] Hard crash using @font-face w/ src: url(...)

Wed Oct 8 04:35:11 PDT 2008

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21467

------- Comment #3 from john.engelhart at gmail.com  2008-10-08 04:35 PDT -------
There is also another potential bug I encountered.  I don't want to open
another bug and paste the same big tarball in to it just for this one quirk
(which may just be a misunderstanding on my part)

In the example tarball, you'll either need to uncomment the weird block of html
right near the <body> start tag or fix the underlying bug, but you'll need to
get a print preview output from the .html.

The bug is this:  The CSS attribute 'letter-spacing' is not behaving as I
expect it should.  My understanding is that positive values (letter-spacing:
0.5ex) cause the letters to 'spread out', while negative values cause the
letters to 'bunch up'.

What I found was the exact opposite is happening, at least in the attached
example .html file.  The CSS attribute 'letter-spacing' is used exactly once,
and that's in the @media print {} section for the LetterGothic font to increase
the amount of space between characters for readability.  However, I had to use
'letter-spacing: -0.5ex' to get the desired result.

Misunderstanding?  Or possibly related to 'downloading' the LetterGothic font
via @font-face?

Sorry about putting two bugs in one ticket, but the tarball for the .html
example is kinda big, and seems wasteful to duplicate it in another ticket for
something that might just be a misunderstanding on my part.  I'm sure someone
who reads this and is familiar with such things will be able to instantly flag
it as a problem or not.

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