Bug 106822 – Broken: font-size: 100cm; height: 4734em; line-height: 1.0;

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: CONFIGURATION CHANGED
• Component: CSS

[Jens O. Meiert]

Created attachment 182619 [details]
worlds-highest-website.com

Sorry guys, lazy posting of an outlier request, but I hope you could fix or shed some light on this.

Noticed on Chrome latest stable on Mac OS 10.8.2.

> I just noticed that with a recent Chrome release,
> <http://worlds-highest-website.com/> breaks. Try to scroll or jump
> down the page (or see the screenshot) [it doesn’t work].
>
> <snip> just in case you know someone who
> could be interested in this.
>
> I for my part am not necessarily surprised (Gecko pulled the rug under
> me a few years back… about 16,000 em used to work reliably), but I’m
> still a bit frustrated.
>
> Also, if you know *why* this apparent limit exists, or got changed, or
> know someone who does, that would be awesome too :)
>
> Bottom line: I’d love to see this fixed but am not too optimistic that
> that happens, and, as a CSS developer, am curious to learn more about
> the limitations.

[Dimitri Glazkov (Google)]

Adding various CSS-related folks.

[Emil A Eklund]

We should cap the height to the maximum supported value (which is slightly smaller than the maximum firefox supports).

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

I'm seeing a different kind of badness in Safari, filed bug 106921.

[Jens O. Meiert]

I had to fix the issue * on the site itself, but set up a copy at <http://hell.meiert.org/temp/worlds-highest-website.com.html>. (You can use <http://hell.meiert.org/temp/worlds-highest-website.com.html#hades> to jump right to the issue—or not, as the expected result is landing at the end of the page.)


* What temporarily fixed it was moving from 4734em to 4438em. Still, I’d like to have the old common max value of 18939em back ;)

[Brent Fulgham]

This site works properly in Safari 15.