The capitalized text bug in Safari

A tiny but infuriating bug in current versions of Safari/Webkit is the one which treats any character after an apostrophe (or other special character) as the beginning of a new sentence. Not a problem that’s going to crop up many times, except when you use the text-transform declaration to capitalize a sentence.

Take this example:

It’s Apple’s Problem

Safari/Webkit users should see two capital S’s at the end of the first two words. Not the ideal solution. If you’re very concerned about your Safari visitors, you might end up not using this declaration at all.

This bug’s been identified for a long time - as long as Safari’s been available, as far as I know - and is still existent. Fingers crossed it will be gone when Safari 3.0 is launched.

• March 5, 2007 [Permalink]
• Tags: Browsers, CSS

1 comment on
“The capitalized text bug in Safari”

1. John Lascurettes [March 9th, 2007, 7:32 am; Permalink]

   Not there in the latest nightly builds.

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