Overlapping text with IE10

[Gerard Rubio]

Text appears overlapped with the selectable text.
As IE10 has removed support for VML (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/12/07/moving-to-standards-based-web-graphics-in-ie10.aspx?Redirected=true), it can use the canvas and CSS3 methods.

With some tests I run on some websites I manage, I've fixed it without breaking previous support for older IE with the following changes:

Replace line ~ 754 if (document.createStyleSheet) {
with line if (document.createStyleSheet && (typeof document.createStyleSheet == "object")) { //Check that we have this function and the browser is < IE10. IE10 returns typeof function, previous ones "object"

[Bill Williams (melvins138)]

I, too, am having overlapping text issues with IE10 and no other version of IE.

I replaced the line of text suggested, but it did not correct the problem.

Are there other areas that may need adjustments? (i.e. the font js files; the css files; etc)

Thanks.

[Geoff R (girosscoe)]

Adding the additional code to line 754 worked for me. Thank you for the fix.

[Kevin (kevin-547)]

Gerard,

Thanks for that IE10 fix! Although, I'm noticing that same error is appearing on the phone browser for the Galaxys3. Any ideas how that could also be fixed?

[Gerard Rubio (gerard-rubio)]

Hi Kevin,

I don't know how could we fix that in the Galaxy S3, I don't have one to test on.

Try posting here the browser and android version used and I'll try to figure out something. Maybe I can try something with the Android Emulator.

[Will Presley (william-presley-jr)]

I can confirm that changing the IF statement on line 754 of the last version of typeface.js causes this IE10-only issue to be fixed. My company has a site that launched about 5 years ago and was using typeface.js, and they didn't want to overhaul the styling, so I'm VERY glad I found this fix.

@Kevin: I'm not seeing the issue on my HTC One X (running CM11/Android 4.4.2) using the Stock Browser or Chrome/Chrome Beta, so perhaps check the browser rendering engine your S3 is using like Gerard said.