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#4395 comment italic html tag behavior incorrect
In the discussion section of the comments, use of the HTML italic <i> works fine. However, this same comment on the user page (/~user) causes the italicized word to show up as quoted (I think?)
The comment is here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1297287&cid=28637993 and the italicized word is 'better' in the second sentence of the last paragraph of the comment. If I go here http://slashdot.org/~horatio/ and view the same comment, the word "better" is alone on the line, with a vertical bar preceding it - as if the word is being quoted.
If it matters (since you asked), the screen resolution on the windows system is 1280x1024 no special font/layout settings. Just standard FF settings. The screen resolution on the mac is the MBP native 1280x800.
I first noticed this in FF3.0.11 on Windows XP x64. It appears to be the same on my Mac running FF3.0.11.
Have upgraded to FF 3.5 since last updating the issue, and the problem remains.
This is not isolated to comments apparently, but also appears in the body of this story http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/13/142210/RIPFTP?art_pos=1 at the word "store" and "could" in the following
"(Even though FTP and SFTP programs both store passwords..."
"...though spyware installed on your machine could read passwords..."
The underlying HTML has these words just surrounded by italic tags, so I'm assuming the CSS is at fault. It looks like the CSS source is http://c.fsdn.com/sd/idlecore-tidied.css?T_2_5_0_264b which says
div.body i {
border-left:3px solid #DDDDDD;
display:block;
font-style:normal;
margin:0.5em;
padding-left:1em;
}
Based on reading of the CSS, this behavior appears intentional?