bug 299697 - fixed in xulrunner for real?

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 03:39:27PM +0200, Alexander Sack <asac at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> in bug 299697 [1] its claimed that xulrunner has a fix (probably
> patching Times et al to use sans et al .... however, there are other
> claims in that bug that they that its still not fixed if website
> explicitly set the font.
> 
> So what is the state of this? And if its not yet completely fixed:
> what should mozilla do to really fix that (as joss claims that the bus
> is in mozilla).

The problem was rather that sans, serif, etc. were changed into Times,
Helvetica, etc. by mozilla preferences. This is changed by [1].

AFAIR, mozilla doesn't want to change this.

Now, if a web page explicitely demands Helvetica, there is nothing we
should do. *That* should be dealt with by fontconfig.

Anyways, I kind of remember there *are* some strange issues with font
selection not being done the same way in mozilla compared to other gtk
applications.

So I'd say it depends what the claims really are.

Mike

1. http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-mozilla/iceape/trunk/debian/patches/82_prefs.dpatch?op=file&rev=0&sc=0