Bug: Words merging when clicking in posted posts

[SailorOfMyVessel]

So I tend to click on words as I read. It's just a habit, but QQ has a funny bug there

Spaces disappear in posted posts when double clicking around on them every once in a while. It's fairly replicable, though it appears as though punctuation prevents it from happening.

I wouldn't mind if this doesn't get fixed because it's funny but someone bullied me into reporting it

Pic to show the effect:

This does not actually change the content on the post, it fixes itself when I refresh so it doesn't change anything for anyone else.

Browser & add ons:

Chrome
Adblock
Grammarly (free)

 

[january1may]

I distinctly recall a very similar (effectively identical) bug being reported on SV a few months back.

I guess it's probably just a general XenForo thing...

 

[MissileTeatime]

Oh god, don't tell me this has migrated to QQ now.

When this popped up on SV it was annoying, but not a problem. Then parts of posts started disappearing when they were highlighted, which was a problem first because refreshing to fix it causes you to lose your place, and second because it made it hard-to-impossible to quote posts. That was so annoying to use that I stopped going to SV and switched back to SB, and didn't notice until after the fact my SV login cookie had expired.

Then SB started experiencing problems. Mostly SB has been impossible to highlight things properly, which makes quoting messages nigh-impossible as well, but I've seen disappearing text on SB once or twice as well. In a repeat of my SV->SB migration, quoting messages became so frustrating that I'm mostly on QQ now.

Please keep QQ usable.

 

[alethiophile]

As far as I can tell, these are browser bugs. I've had similar problems on other sites as well.

At any rate, I'm not aware of anything a site can do to fix them.

 

[MissileTeatime]

As far as I can tell, these are browser bugs. I've had similar problems on other sites as well.

At any rate, I'm not aware of anything a site can do to fix them.

Click to shrink...

I just looked at my old bug-report thread on SV to verify things I thought I remembered. I don't know about the bug you're experiencing, but the bug I'm experiencing is specific to individual XenForo sites even if it's a browser-interaction bug. Not XenForo sites in general, but particular ones.

What browser are you using? I'm speculating that there are two different browser interaction bugs with related behavior, one affecting chrome-family browsers and one affecting ie8-moblie family browsers.

Per my old thread, my previous experiences with this on SV did not manifest in Firefox. I can't tell if I didn't have problems with other sites because the bug didn't affect them at all, or because I didn't use other sites enough to trip over it.

 

[alethiophile]

The previous bugs I'm thinking of were Firefox-specific, and if I recall correctly were a result of bad interactions with the system font-rendering libraries. They went away after a few system updates (on Linux; don't know if they affected Windows versions).

The symptoms described (relation to clicking/highlighting, character-specific manifestation) make me think it's likely something similar, though not the same one.