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OT but the text selection behavior on this page is fascinating! (Or horrific if you don't want to be nice). I've never seen anything like it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4k72g8b2tl3mgzt/Screenshot%202013-...

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That's fine for me, but I'm getting ligatures for every st. I thought it was deliberate (and a little pretentious really) but you're not getting them so hurray webfont or something I suppose.

Ahh what are you viewing it on?

Chrome 31.0.1650.48 on OSX

31.0.1650.48 here as well.

It appears to be a bug with a combination of the ::selected pseudoelement in conjunction with the font Georgia. My guess is it's a Chrome-on-mac bug (Firefox is fine), not a site coding error.

Disabling either the font or the selection style fixes it. Most likely a text rendering issue. At work we've noticed Chrome getting buggier in relation to that, as well as retaining DOM node properties via redraws.

Odd. I can't replicate on any browser but I don't have OSX. Does it work fine on your other browsers?

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