25958 2009-05-22 02:34:43 -0700 investigate matching IE's text-control widths for fonts where the OS/2 table as a non-positive avgCharWidth 2010-02-12 19:24:49 -0800 1 1 1 Unclassified WebKit Layout and Rendering 528+ (Nightly build) Mac OS X 10.5 RESOLVED FIXED P2 Normal --- 25566 1 ojan webkit-unassigned oldest_to_newest 122621 0 ojan 2009-05-22 02:34:43 -0700 Once bug 25566 is fixed to use the avgCharWidth in the OS/2 table, we should investigate how IE calculates this value for fonts that have a non-positive (invalid) avgCharWidth in the OS/2 table. I currently see two options. 1. Take the arithmetic average from the hmtx table and see how close that gets us to IE's numbers. 2. Use the width of a '0' character as that matches Safari 3 behavior and the fonts with negative OS/2 avgCharWidth values seem to all be Mac fonts.