Bug 132064

Summary: word-spacing property causes glitch in rendering on :hover for child anchor elements
Product: WebKit Reporter: Kevin Sweeney <kevin>
Component: TextAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: Normal CC: c.andrew.tate, u1201u
Priority: P2    
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Resulting display of hovering element none

Description Kevin Sweeney 2014-04-23 10:02:09 PDT
Created attachment 229992 [details]
Resulting display of hovering element

This is currently affecting portfolio sites on Vimeo: http://vimeopro.com/mmcrp/andy-laviolette-films
A simpler, stripped-down example: http://jsfiddle.net/nYy64/1/
This example words as expected when there is no child anchor element: http://jsfiddle.net/nYy64/2/

Tested in latest version of Safari as well as current WebKit nightly.

(Apple Radar ID: 16700246)
Comment 1 Andrew Tate 2014-10-28 08:13:23 PDT
Still affecting Safari in version 8.0.