Forum Formatting Glitch - Inline Italics

Using IE9 whenever I embed italicized words in a sentence I see them jam against the following word.
Do these words seem spaced properly to you or do the italicized words seem jammed against the words that follow?
Do these words seem spaced properly to you or do the italicized words seem jammed against the words that follow?
This is a basic formatting glitch - possibly having to do with the font choice - that should never be seen in this millenium from a company that actually does graphics and even makes fonts.
Here's a screen grab of what I see:
-Noel

Thanks. Since IE9 is the current browser on the current Windows OS, this leads me to wonder...
Did anyone actually test the proposed forum changes on a PC before putting them online?
Did the private beta testers actually report anything?
Did the forum implementers actually pay attention to anything that was reported?
What is the time pressure to put updates to the web forum software online before it is fully debugged?
I'm sorry for being critical, but basic broken things like this showing up in one of the most popular browsers on the planet should embarrass the hell out of Adobe.
Edit: Make that TWO of the most popular browsers. This is captured from FireFox 12.0 on Windows:
-Noel

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Hi,
Apple in this case has to rely on what software is out there that can handle the amount of Traffic that these boards get.
This is from the Brows Option the selecting People in the box
Note the Number
At the Launch of the new software this was at just over 2,250,000 and has now topped 2,300,000
That is well over 50,000 people joining in just 2 weeks.
Jive are the only real players in this market.
To some extent the software is a one size fits all, much like the previous software was.
We got used to the look and the Folder type layout of the Previous software.
We ignored the foibles of where things were placed.
Things are somewhat double edged in my view.
I post mostly about iChat.
I don't like that the Leopard and Snow Leopard forums that were are now "Refine the List"/Tag led searching to read specific threads. (not to mention that returning to "Dicussions" loses the "refinement").
On the other hand those same threads and anwsers are now a lot more viewable in the OS forums than the subforums of before.
As a regular poster I use a couple of Boiler plate things for a welcome message and my Signature.
Some were made with TextExpander and included the HTML code to sttyle things slightly.
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Posting link used to use the BBCodeXtra add-on to Firefox but this action is now included in the Regular and Advanced Editor.
That means I equipped myself and used things to get around shortcomings of the old software which is some cases I either don't need or need to learn the new way.
I am sure the Style will morph as we go along.
Of course some of this relies on what exactly you mean by:-
the discussion forum format
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If I have the contents of some string being displaced in a label (just like the Hello World app) is it possible to format the string to italicize or bold some words in the string. For instance if the string originally was "Hello there person" is it possible to format it so that in the label field it shows up as "Hello(bolded)there person (italicized" ?
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applet C
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Rest assured, there are plans in motion for a significant upgrade to the Forum's engine in the not-too-distant future. Might I also add that there is a huge user-base who, like Steve above, enjoy the minimalist layout and style of the Webx forum engine used here now.
But in the meantime, the instructions are very clear to me.
b A lower case "b" at the start of a line makes text bold.
i A lower case "i" at the start of a line makes text italic.
c A lower case "c" centres text.
* An asterisk at the start of the line sets a bullet.
] A closed-square-bracket at the start of a line indents the text.
> A "greater-than" symbol indents text and sets the font to courier - great for quoting.
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