June 2008 Archive

Firefox 3's Buggy Text Rendering

Posted
24 June 2008
Tagged
Bugs, CSS, Firefox

With the recent release of Firefox 3 I’ve found that the way certain elements are rendered has changed, and in some situations not necessarily for the better. This is obviously due to the new version of the Cairo rendering engine, and no doubt, these changes are all supposed to be improvements (and mostly are). However, I’ve run into one problem with text rendering in some specific situations. Take a look at this:…