HTML bold tag doesn't work on Mac OS

[smathot]

Here it is reported that the <b>bold</b> tag doesn't actually cause text to become bold on Mac OS, and this does not appear to be related to the font. This appears to only affect Mac OS.

[PaoloCocuzza]

I'm facing the same issue. Bold is correctly working on my IPhone 12, but not working on my Mac.

[smathot]

Thanks for reporting this. It's on the radar, but I since I suspect it's due to the Pixi.JS text generation there's not much that can be done.

Does boldface work in form items? (That uses the standard browser text generation.)

[PaoloCocuzza]

I have to tell you that I'm not satisfied from both renderings, because on Mac (Chrome), I can't see bold, instead on IPhone (Chrome), I see it even too much, like it's a sort of double bold! I see a good rendering on Mac, using Safari browser, but still a bit a "soft bold". On IPhone through Safari, I see even a good rendering, but still a bit a "double bold. I don't know which one is "correct". Can you reformulate your closing question? I'm sorry for not underastanding but I'm kind of new to this world :)

[smathot]

I was mainly curious as to whether there is any difference at all between bold and non-bold text when using forms on Mac OS. And apparently there is. The exact rendering is handled by the browser/ operating system, so that can indeed vary a bit.

(And while re-reading the original issue, I realize that different rendering issues are conflated here, because the original issue was not about OSWeb, but rather OpenSesame on the desktop, which uses yet another font-rendering technique. The main message, I suppose, is that font rendering isn't always perfect on Mac OS.)

[PaoloCocuzza]

Ok, I understand now. Thank you.