Bug 22014

Summary:

Hebrew paragraphs are laid out "mirrored"

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Jungshik Shin <jshin>

Component:

Layout and Rendering

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

Severity:

Normal

CC:

playmobil

Priority:

Version:

528+ (Nightly build)

Hardware:

OS:

OS X 10.5

URL:

http://news.walla.co.il/?w=/93/1363831

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Source for HTML page as retrieved by FF	none
Source for HTML page as retrieved by Safari	none

Jungshik Shin

Reported 2008-10-31 14:08:13 PDT

1. Go to http://news.walla.co.il/?w=/93/1363831 2. Paragraphs in the body of the article is laid out "mirrored" (what should be on the right end is on the left end). It's reported for Chrome : http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=3740

Attachments
Source for HTML page as retrieved by FF (53.39 KB, text/html) 2008-11-24 00:00 PST, Jeremy Moskovich	no flags	Details
Source for HTML page as retrieved by Safari (53.30 KB, text/html) 2008-11-24 00:00 PST, Jeremy Moskovich	no flags	Details
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Jeremy Moskovich

Comment 1 2008-11-24 00:00:18 PST

Created attachment 25414 [details] Source for HTML page as retrieved by FF

Jeremy Moskovich

Comment 2 2008-11-24 00:00:42 PST

Created attachment 25415 [details] Source for HTML page as retrieved by Safari

Jeremy Moskovich

Comment 3 2008-11-24 00:07:14 PST

This bug is puzzling since FF displays the Hebrew text correctly. Turns out that walla is serving up 2 different versions of the page based on the browser. For FF the Hebrew text is served in logical order wrapped in a <span dir=rtl>, for Safari the text is being served in visual order with no span to tell the browser the text direction. This is easily visible by diffing the 2 attachments. Mitz: Do you think there's an underlying WebKit issue here? Would a further reduction be helpful?

Jeremy Moskovich

Comment 4 2009-01-09 11:03:47 PST

This looks like it's been fixed upstream, closing.

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