{"id":34209,"date":"2021-11-18T16:27:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T21:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34209"},"modified":"2021-11-18T16:27:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T21:27:51","slug":"webkit-e-mail-formatting-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/18\/webkit-e-mail-formatting-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"WebKit E-mail Formatting Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2021\/11\/15\/littlebits-tidbits-formatting-bug-ransomware-protections-more-ocr-in-images\/\">Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2021\/11\/15\/littlebits-tidbits-formatting-bug-ransomware-protections-more-ocr-in-images\/\">\n<p>Now and then, we get a report from a reader whose TidBITS issue has an entire article formatted as a column of text that&rsquo;s a single character wide. I could tell what happened in at least two cases, but I&rsquo;m utterly stumped as to what might be causing it. The problem doesn&rsquo;t appear to originate on our end.<\/p>\n<p>In one report where the reader forwarded the badly formatted issue to us, the problem stemmed from CSS corruption.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m not sure what causes this, but I&rsquo;ve seen it happen to a variety of e-mails (though none from TidBITS) starting with Catalina, both in Mail itself and in my app that uses WebKit to render HTML e-mails. For me, at least, it&rsquo;s a transitory problem that goes away if I relaunch the app and view the same e-mail again.<\/p>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steipete\/status\/1461012562275885064\">Peter Steinberger<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Engst: Now and then, we get a report from a reader whose TidBITS issue has an entire article formatted as a column of text that&rsquo;s a single character wide. I could tell what happened in at least two cases, but I&rsquo;m utterly stumped as to what might be causing it. The problem doesn&rsquo;t appear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-11-18T21:27:53Z","apple_news_api_id":"38f20052-7952-4931-842b-8928029308c1","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-11-18T21:27:53Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AOPIAUnlSSTGEK4koApMIwQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[126,131,338,150,31,2078,30,1666,1891,2077,597,1523,328],"class_list":["post-34209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-applemail","tag-bug","tag-css","tag-email","tag-ios","tag-ios-15","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15","tag-macos-11-0","tag-macos-12","tag-mobilemail","tag-tidbits","tag-webkit"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34210,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34209\/revisions\/34210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}