Android 2.3 (+others?) - inline-block, newlines and text-rendering: optimizeLegibility adds character glyphs

[froots]

Description

On Android 2.2, 2.3, applying text-rendering: optimizeLegibility causes interstitial unrecognised character glyphs (rectangles) to appear between inline-block elements and newline characters.

Platforms

Android 2.2, 2.3

Reduced Example:

http://jsbin.com/ibitek/2

Bug Tracker ticket(s):

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15067

Workarounds:

None, except don't use optimizeLegibility.

[adammessinger]

Using the Android emulator I can also reproduce this bug in 2.2, but not in 2.1. Seems to be fixed in 3.0+.

[paulirish]

@indyplanets also doc'd this here: https://gist.github.com/indyplanets/1307515