Strange bug when opera zoom is used (11.50)
Onur Güzel
Just installed Opera 11.50, found a few bugs at first sight
(instantly), one of them is very interesting. Suppose you have a
bigger resolution and the page content is too small to read. Hence you
increase zoom, here bug comes in. When you increase zoom level (let's
say %120), the extra blank chars(spaces) occur between chars in "form"
fields. A good example can be accomplished on Google. Increas your
zoom level to %120, then search something like multi-word (eg:
handsome man arrived here, bla bla2 bla3...) on Google, hit search.
Look at the textbox (form field) above which contains the words you
searched. Extra and unwanted spaces appear between words.
Anyone noticed that?
Thanks!
Ed Jay
Not here.
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>Onur Güzel wrote:
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>Not here.
Not here either. Maybe it's to early to pass comments on 11.50, but the zoom
resolved many of the past troubles I had with some website with fonts so small
or too big that I need to keep on adjusting it. I like version 11.5 and it's
faster than 11.11.
Onur Güzel
Maybe you must try more to get the point what i meant. On Google
Search box, enter a multi-word phrase like "a handsome man" WHILE
default zoom is %120 (can be set via preferences), hit search (or
enter), in results page of Google, look at textbox form field for
searched word, it has more spaces (actually there's one space but the
margin between chars are abnormally seems enlarged and keyboard cursor
stays in the middle of the space between words) like between
"handsome" and "man".
Try and see, using 11.50.
Rich Webb
Nor here. Perhaps a side-effect of the font used?
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Rich Webb
Well, when searching on "multi word search term" at 120% I can see
something like what you describe. When moving the text cursor in the
text box with the arrow keys, when going from left to right the cursor
does stop just a little short of the "t" character when moving between
"search" and "term." Going right to left, the cursor ends up in the
expected place every time.
Possibly a side effect of the kerning pairs present in the font file?
Whiskers
I can't reproduce that effect, but it sounds to me as though the font your
browser is using for that part of the page is not 'zoomable' so the
browser is forced to emulate a larger size by adding white space around
the actual character.
I don't know enough about HTML etc to work out from the 'source code' of
the Google results page what font category is designated for that
particular field.
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Ed Jay
I see what you're talking about, but I don't think it's an issue that
would cause me to lose sleep.
Onur Güzel
Great to see anybody figured out what i meant. Yep, the keyboard
cursor DOES NOT sit exactly in front of letter or behind the letter
when you have multi-words in textbox form field. I did NOT set any
font that causes the problem, everyhing is fresh default and as you
know the font is decided by CSS of website. This is a bit annoying for
the people who need to zoom in because of having hi-res displays due
to smaller content than the normal.
Hope Opera fixes it in next build.
Onur Güzel
almost fine. However when i updated Opera to 11.50, many new bugs come
like i tried on my PC. Here is what i'm talking about, see the
screenshot:
http://i56.tinypic.com/15cg09t.jpg
As you see, the cursor stands in the middle of "e" and "m" though
there's only ONE blank space actually, When you set zoom to %100, it
goes back to normal.
There are additional bugs related to Facebook also, as well as Google
when zoom is used, such as chat window is blinking while scrolling,
letters (font) has bigger margin than it should be..etc...(so many) as
i tested on more than one PC with approval.
Hope they'll be fixed.