Yes, that that will be correct. Each browser and operating system renders text a bit differently, especially OS X. We had to add in some automatic padding for OS X to prevent wrapping text objects. Right now what we are doing is adding an automatic 3% increase when we write the markup. We just made an estimate based on some sample sites we played with where each <div> needed to be increased by 5px to properly rendered.

This maybe something we have to tweak over time, but I have not seen enough websites using this beta to make a decision on what the best number will be.

Thanks for the file. It actually looks like the issue is 10px with bold. If I remove the bold it works fine. I will see what we can do here.

Scott, I've tried one or two things out with your beta version over the weekend. Like several of your other testers, I thought the text looked crisper, and I'm therefore positive about the changes you've made. However, the changes didn't actually influence the problem that I originally contacted you about -- i.e. unwanted line breaks when a page is viewed on a Mac. In the end, I worked around that problem by greatly over-dimensioning the text boxes. However, in an ideal world, a smarter solution is desirable, because the over-dimensioning thing implies always guessing how big you need the box to be, then testing and correcting.
To illustrate what I'm talking about, I've posted a handful of screen grabs here:
http://www.haywoodhouse.net/temp.htm

How is this only being worked on now? When will these fixes be made public? Websites generated with VSD look bad with this text wrapping issue. This should be a big priority.

I'm seeing wrapping on a text box 13px non bold in FX but not IE. Tried making the text box over size but it still wraps. The weird thing is that it previews fine but shows on the live page.

There is no specific ETA as we are still testing.

What you see in VSD is not being rendered by a browser, so it will be different once the page is rendered. The issue is all browsers and operating systems render text differently so there will always be slight differences. Our goal is to make this as close as possible, but realistically it will never be 100% identical.

Maybe I wasn't clear enough. When I preview the page click "Preview" in VSD it shows fine in FX preview. The page live on the web shows wrapping in the same text box in FX browser.

You got me on that one. Using Firefox locally or on the web should have identical views. I just compared a test site in Firefox locally and online and it is the same for me here.