[whatwg] Format issue on the spec: unreadable (or hardly readable) text.

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Nov 10 07:39:15 PST 2008


On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Eduard Pascual wrote:
>
> I can't say for sure if this is an issue from the spec document
> itself, or just a rendering bug on my browser (FF 3.0.3), but here it
> goes:
> Within the section "4.3.1 The script element", on the algorythm
> labeled "Running a script", step 6, the text for the first "condition"
> shows overlapped, each line covering part of the text in the previous
> line. I have put a screenshot on
> http://herenvardo.googlepages.com/brokentext.png just for case anyone
> wants to see it.
> So, unless it is actually a FF bug, I hope someone fixes it.
> Actually, I *can* read half-visible text like that, but even being
> used to do that it still takes some extra effort from my eyes and
> brain. And I wouldn't expect everyone reading the spec to be used to
> look at scrambled text.

It'll be fixed when I fix the issue given in the red box. In the meantime, 
apologies for the inconvenience.

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