[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 54317] New: On a 10.5.8 system without Bitstream Vera Sans, pages render incorrectly

[bugzilla-daemon at webkit.org]

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54317

           Summary: On a 10.5.8 system without Bitstream Vera Sans, pages
                    render incorrectly
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: Macintosh Intel
               URL: http://blog.bigvicente.com/
        OS/Version: Mac OS X 10.5
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: Major
          Priority: P1
         Component: CSS
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: laurent.tc at bossavit.com


I'm using Chrome (recently switched from FireFox) on a Mac with OSX 10.5.8. Prior to noticing and investigating this bug I didn't have the font "Bitstream Vera Sans" installed.

Any page with a stylesheet referencing Bistream Vera Sans rendered incorrectly: after briefly flashing correct page contents most of the page would be washed out with its background color, and the scroll bars would indicate incorrect extents for the page. (This even though the CSS for these pages specified alternates for Vera Sans.)

Scrolling the page to its ends results in even weirder behaviour, see attachment.

Installing Bitstream Vera Sans and rebooting corrects the issue, an acceptable workaround, but the behaviour should be to fall back to default fonts and degrade gracefully.

Repro'd under Safari 4.

-- 
Configure bugmail: https://bugs.webkit.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are the assignee for the bug.