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The drunk dotted border in Google Chrome

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Here's a screenshot of how Chrome 10.0.648.204 renders it:

http://i.imgur.com/auBKm.png

EDIT: Forgot to mention this is on Windows XP

Not to turn this into a bug thread, but this is also Chrome 10.0.648.204 on OS X 10.6.6. Nothing at all like the parent.

http://i.imgur.com/RD5vR.png

Hm... the groupings contain 1, 2, 5, 11, 23, and 47 pixels. With the exception of the start, the number of pixels is 2n+1, where n is the number of pixels in the previous group.

When I first saw it, I thought "it's signaling for help."

FYI: your layout breaks completely when resized less than 1024px... http://d.pr/i615 Kind of a high lower bound for such hard breakage IMO. Increasing your min-width on #page should help with that ;)

Also adding to the data: everything looks fine here on chrome 11 (OSX)

Looks fine on 10.0.648.204 on OSX as well.

It's broken as described in the article for me. Chromium 12.0.712.0 (0), Gentoo Linux (~x86).

Reminds me of Wired magazine - made by designers so disdainful of their readers that they decide to make it unreadable (like setting pink text on a green background).

When I see a site like this I get the message - GO AWAY - and comply.

Given the comments, and three versions of Chrome on my machine (OSX, no errors), I'm guessing this is restricted to Windows. Anyone have any idea why? Anyone have a Linux version handy that can check?

I see a blob in the top left, but not nearly to the extent of the problem as is in the screenshots posted.

Ubuntu 10.10 Chromium 12.0.723.0 is broken. Exactly like the screenshot somebody posted.

Working fine in Chrome 12.

Chrome 11 as well. Can anyone that's using a version of Chrome where this does occur post a picture of it?

http://imgur.com/QcXaD

10.0.648.151 beta on Ubuntu Linux 10.10

[edit] Chrome version numbers weird me out. Am I really that far behind?

12.0.712.0 (79102) Ubuntu 10.10, exactly the same pattern.

Chrome 12.0.712.0 Windows 7 http://imgur.com/qtkBe

I don't see this with Chrome on the Mac though.

I'm using 12.0.712.0 on Windows at the moment, and the bug definitely exists in that version.

10 and 11 in OSX work fine too.

Unreadable on an iPad :(

Good to know, thank you.

Also unreadable on an Android phone.

i don't get the problem? double dot at the start of the dashes?

i should note that i'm on chrome on a mac

The mac version of Chrome seems to work fine.

I find that web page deeply upsetting for reasons besides a small Chrome bug halfway down.

Because....? Do you have #B33 text on #000 in your nightmares? Has anti-nuclear propaganda has caused you to irrationally fear the "Atom Feed"?

on firefox 4 the left margin of the black text is smack dab in the middle of the black colomn. Half of the black body text is on a black background.

Interesting, nothing like that here. And no reason for it, the CSS is straightforward (width on left column, width on right). Reload FF and submit a bug report if it still happens - it might be related to the margin calculation reading the wrong value (the left columns margins are specified as "165px 0 0 0" while the right is "margin-top: 165px").

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