Overlap

Firefox has a bug that causes floats to overlap with other content in certain cases. This leads to an amusing rendering of part of the Wikipedia article about Web 2.0.

5 Responses to “Overlap”

  1. mawrya Says:

    Oh, the irony. Thanks for a good laugh.

  2. Nik Kantar Says:

    Irony 2.0?

    Oh, the cleverness of me.

  3. Robin Says:

    I’ve noticed that bug on several occasions. Is there a ‘zilla bug for it?

  4. zebulon Says:

    Sorry in advance if my question is inappropriate. What font are you using? My rendering of the Web 2.0 page is ugly compared to yours (even though I don’t see the frame that is being overlapped). I was happy with Bitstream Vera but your font seems both sharper AND more compact. Unless it’s your font-rendering engine which is better than Xft.

  5. Jesse Ruderman Says:

    It’s Helvetica on Mac. Wikipedia just tells browsers to use their default sans-serif font, and that’s Firefox’s default on Mac. (For the font size, it uses an interesting hack: it scales the text down using x-small and then scales it up using 127%.)