Bug 22014 - Hebrew paragraphs are laid out "mirrored"
Summary: Hebrew paragraphs are laid out "mirrored"
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Layout and Rendering (show other bugs)
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware: PC OS X 10.5
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
URL: http://news.walla.co.il/?w=/93/1363831
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2008-10-31 14:08 PDT by Jungshik Shin
Modified: 2009-01-09 11:03 PST (History)
1 user (show)

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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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Description Jungshik Shin 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
Comment 1 Jeremy Moskovich 2008-11-24 00:00:18 PST
Created attachment 25414 [details]
Source for HTML page as retrieved by FF
Comment 2 Jeremy Moskovich 2008-11-24 00:00:42 PST
Created attachment 25415 [details]
Source for HTML page as retrieved by Safari
Comment 3 Jeremy Moskovich 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?
Comment 4 Jeremy Moskovich 2009-01-09 11:03:47 PST
This looks like it's been fixed upstream, closing.