[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 120555] New: Columns Squished in Multicolumn Div with Short Lines

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120555

           Summary: Columns Squished in Multicolumn Div with Short Lines
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: PC
               URL: www.hymntime.com/tch/test/multicolumn-test.htm
        OS/Version: Windows 7
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: CSS
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: cyberhymnal at hotmail.com


When short lines (song lyrics, for example) are displayed in multi-column format, the columns are so narrow the text becomes unreadable. This URL illustrates the problem (all the lyrics pages on this site exhibit the same symptom):

www.hymntime.com/tch/test/multicolumn-test.htm


A response to a post I made on the ChromeDevTools forum some time ago suggested Chrome was setting the column width based on the shortest line. I don't see anything in the CSS spec about "shortest line," so I suspect Web-kit has misinterpreted the spec.  Both MSIE 10+ and Firefox render the multi-column lyrics on this page correctly.

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The versions listed above don't match what I see in Chrome which shows the following:

Google Chrome    29.0.1547.62 (Official Build 219432) m
OS    Windows 
Blink    537.36 (@156661)
JavaScript    V8 3.19.18.19
Flash    11.8.800.115
User Agent    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.62 Safari/537.36

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