Maniphest T204280

Unwanted bold in DISPLAYTITLE
Closed, DeclinedPublic
Actions

Assigned To

None

Authored By

	Wostr
	Sep 13 2018, 9:18 PM

Description

This was reported in pl.wikipedia discussion (permalink): on some devices italic text in DISPLAYTITLE magic word is also bolded, i.e.

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''N''-Bromosukcynoimid}}

behave like

{{DISPLAYTITLE:'''''N'''''-Bromosukcynoimid}}

User reported this on MacOSX 10.6.8 with Mozilla Firefox 48.0.2. There's a screenshot provided by this user.

I couldn't reproduce this and I don't know if this is a problem with OS/browser or MediaWiki, but this may be an issue for some (small?) percent of users, so I'm reporting it here.

Event Timeline

Wostr created this task.Sep 13 2018, 9:18 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptSep 13 2018, 9:18 PM

Legoktm edited projects, added MediaWiki-Parser; removed MediaWiki-General.Sep 14 2018, 5:53 AM

This needs better and clearer steps to reproduce. Link: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Bromosukcynoimid

What makes you think that this is an issue in MediaWiki and not the font used on the affected machine?

What makes you think that this is an issue in MediaWiki and not the font used on the affected machine?

As I said, I don't know if this is a problem with MediaWiki. There was a discussion and quite serious disagreement about using DISPLAYTITLE, but it finally turned out that different users see different formatting.

This user provided a source code from https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnocalycium_spegazzinii

<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="pl"><i>Gymnocalycium spegazzinii</i></h1>

But I don't see any reason, why this is bolded.

.firstHeading {
	line-height: 1.2em
}

So from what you're saying, it's possible that browser applied font that only looks like bolded?

Can affected users please provide information which exact font is used for rendering? See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Web_Console

Affected user said that the font used is Times. However, he is no longer interested in solving this problem, as he now also uses modern web browser, where there is no problem with rendering titles with italic font, so I think this can be marked as invalid/declined?

Alright, thanks! :)

Unwanted bold in DISPLAYTITLEClosed, DeclinedPublicActions

Description

Event Timeline

Unwanted bold in DISPLAYTITLE
Closed, DeclinedPublic
Actions