Bug#535780: libwebkit: webkit's JS returns localized CSS properties

Sat Jul 4 23:14:58 UTC 2009

Package: libwebkit-1.0-2
Version: 1.1.10-2
Severity: normal
File: libwebkit

The CSS properties returned by the style member of a DOM object is localized.
If e.g. you have set a height of '1.2em' for an object, comparing the object's 
height against '1.2em' will fail on some locales (seen in fr_FR) as the
property returns '1,2em' (with a comma), the localized version of '1.2em'.

In english locales there's of course no problem, but the behaviour is different
depending on the locale.

I have seen this in both Epiphany-webkit and Midori.

How to reproduce?
1) Write a small JavaScript function, like this for example:
   // reduce/increase height of an element
   // -> el is an DOM node
   function toggle_folding(el) {
     var folded_height = '1.2em';
     if (el.style.height == folded_height) {
       el.style.height = '';
     } else {
       el.style.height = folded_height;
     }
   }
2) Use it somewhere, like that:
   <html>
     <head>
       <title>WebKit JS test</title>
       <script type="text/javascript">
         function toggle_folding(el) {
           var folded_height = '1.2em';
           if (el.style.height == folded_height) {
             el.style.height = '';
           } else {
             el.style.height = folded_height;
           }
         }
       </script>
       <style type="text/css">
         /* just to ensure the visibility of the folding effect */
         .foldable { overflow: hidden }
       </style>
     </head>
     <body>
       <p class="foldable" onclick="toggle_folding(this);">
         Click me!<br/>
         some<br/>text<br/>that<br/>shall<br/>be<br/>folded.
       </p>
     </body>
   </html>
   The text should be shown/hidden when clicking on it.
3) See that it works properly with Gecko or with WebKit using with an English
   locale, but fail with WebKit useing a French locale: the text is hidden but,
   never shown again.
   To see why, simply show the value of el.style.height, wich is '1,2em'
   instead of the expected '1.2em'.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libwebkit-1.0-2 depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.26.0-1     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                       2.9-18       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                   1.8.8-2      The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libenchant1c2a              1.4.2-3.3    a wrapper library for various spel
ii  libfontconfig1              2.6.0-4      generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                2.3.9-5      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgail18                   2.16.4-1     GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.20.4-1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0. 0.10.23-3    GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0          0.10.23-2    Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.16.4-1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libicu40                    4.0.1-3      International Components for Unico
ii  libjpeg62                   6b-14        The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.24.3-1     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0                  1.2.37-1     PNG library - runtime
ii  libsoup2.4-1                2.26.2-1     an HTTP library implementation in 
ii  libsqlite3-0                3.6.14.2-1   SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libstdc++6                  4.4.0-10     The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libwebkit-1.0-common        1.1.10-2     Web content engine library for Gtk
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.2.1-1    X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                     2.7.3.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxslt1.1                  1.1.24-2     XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  libxt6                      1:1.0.5-3    X11 toolkit intrinsics library

libwebkit-1.0-2 recommends no packages.

libwebkit-1.0-2 suggests no packages.

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