Bug: content of adjacent textNodes is not merged before word-splitting

[maranomynet]

Consider this code:

var elm = document.createElement('div');
document.body.appendChild(elm);

elm.appendChild(document.createTextNode('wo'));
elm.appendChild(document.createTextNode('rd'));
alert(elm.innerHTML); // Alerts: "word"

Cufon.replace(elm);
setTimeout(function(){
    alert(elm.getElementsByTagName('canvas').length);  // Alerts: 2
  }, 500);

Cufon considers elm to contain two seperate words - "wo" and "rd" - creating seperate <canvas> elements for each...

[maranomynet]

First version of the code example was slightly disfunctional - added setTimeout to make it run properly...

[sorccu]

The easiest solution would be to use Node.normalize(), it's supposed to be supported in IE6 but I'll have to to run some tests.

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM/Node.normalize
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536646(VS.85).aspx

[sorccu]

As expected, normalize() is indeed somewhat broken in IE 6, 7 and 8:

http://cufon.shoqolate.com/tests/normalize/

[maranomynet]

Hi. Has there been any progress on fixing this bug?

[sorccu]

Fixed in commit 2bd440d.

[maranomynet]

Awesome! :)