Bug 192259

Summary: Ink-skipping underlines can cause entire words to by skipped over
Product: WebKit Reporter: Myles C. Maxfield <mmaxfield>
Component: TextAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: NEW    
Severity: Normal CC: mmaxfield
Priority: P2    
Version: Other   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Myles C. Maxfield
Reported 2018-11-30 15:05:07 PST
The skipping gaps are the same size as the underline thickness. The underline thickness is configurable to be as thick as the author wants it to be. Therefore, if you have a short word with a single descender and a thick underline, the entire word could be skipped.
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2018-11-30 15:15 PST, Myles C. Maxfield 		no flags
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Myles C. Maxfield
Comment 1 2018-11-30 15:06:33 PST
Perhaps the horizontal gap shouldn't be equal to stroke thickness, and should instead be proportional to font size.
Myles C. Maxfield
Comment 2 2018-11-30 15:07:19 PST
Alternatively, we could detect when this occurs on a word, and just draw a solid underline for that word.
Myles C. Maxfield
Comment 3 2018-11-30 15:15:05 PST
Created attachment 356245 [details] Screenshot
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