Re: line-height-014 is invalid

On Thursday 2010-12-02 02:27 +0000, Arron Eicholz wrote:
> On Friday, October 15, 2010 5:04 PM, L. David Baron wrote:
> > These tests:
> > http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20101001/html4/line-height-014.htm
> > http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20101001/xhtml1/line-height-014.xht
> > are invalid because of rounding issues.
> > 
> > They use a font-size of 16px and a line-height of 1.3333px, and assert that the
> > top of the font in the first line and the bottom of the font in the next line are
> > separated by 17px.  However, since CSS does not define rounding behavior,
> > they could reasonably be separated by 18px.
> > 
> > I'd recommend testing rounder values instead, or loosening the pass criteria.
> 
> Fixed, changed the font value to 20px.

While that does happen to fix it in one case (Gecko on Linux with my
default font size), I don't think it's sufficient since the
line-height is still 1.3333px.

-David

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Received on Thursday, 2 December 2010 03:43:39 UTC