The Safari hyphenation bug workaround causes invisible text on IE11 about wp-typography

[mundschenk-at]

Two conflicting browser bugs - well, there's not much I can do about it (except maybe some conditional comments - does IE11 still parse these?). Also, the problem does not happen when you use a font other than Noto Sans. There's probably something funky with its ligatures.

[mundschenk-at]

OK, apparently this is connected with https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedbackdetail/view/831964 and only happens on Windows < 8. While one could probably create some IE11-only CSS via a special media query, I'm not sure it is worth the effort.

[sarukuku]

IE11 doesn't support conditional comments anymore. I think IE9 was the last one to support those.

It's good that the IE team hans an issue open for that bug already. Maybe leave this bug open and track the IE issue from time to time?

Also it would be possible to add a comment to the plugin under the option that this style is global and warns about this bug. The comment could be removed if / when the bug in IE10/11 gets fixed.

[mundschenk-at]

Microsoft is not fixing non-security bugs on anything other than Edge anymore, so tracking the bug won't do any good.

[sarukuku]

Ah, ok. Then I guess it's a lost cause. Well at least here's an issue of this with some extra info if someone happens to run to this. Consider adding the message though. :)

[elbstrand]

This fixes the safari bug without the problems in IE:

body {
    -webkit-font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;
    font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;
}

[mundschenk-at]

But it also disables ligatures.

[elbstrand]

Maybe thats a matter of taste, but i rather have no (common) ligatures then destroyed text in safari or no text in IE.

[mundschenk-at]

The IE bug is only triggered on Windows 7 and not with all fonts. Everyone is free to use their own CSS tailored to their font usage.

[elbstrand]

You are aware that Windows 7 still has a 40% marketshare among desktop computers?

[mundschenk-at]

That's why this ticket has not been closed yet.

[mundschenk-at]

The problem might be fixable by adding -ms-font-feature-settings: normal; to the current Safari workaround.

[elbstrand]

I've heard that the -ms prefix doesnt work with newer IE browser, have to check tho

[mundschenk-at]

It's deprecated and it may not work for certain properties, but as far as can tell it works for IE11 on Windows 7 (at least for version 11.0.9600.18376).