213563 - extra newline on converting from HTML to TEXT

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Serializers, defect, P5)

Description

[Biju]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030721 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030721 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

extra newline on converting from HTML to TEXT
This problem occures in many cases.

And the major issue is when converting an HTML mail received 
from MS-Outlook to text mail, while replying.

Also happens when copying a web page and pasting to notepad.

To test this I am providing two html files.

Attachment a.html
steps
1. open attachment a.htm
2. Select whole page.
3. Selection will show only 3 lines in the document
4. Copy it
5. paste it in notepad

actual result:-
  you will 2 blank lines between a & b 

expected result:-
  there should be only one blank lines between a & b 

Attachment b.html
This is an extract from mail received from outlook, 
issue is seviour here because outlook add an unnessrey tag <o:p></o:p>
contents of this is not added by user while typing mail in outlook.
so outlook hide this while displaying mail.  
But in mozilla we get 2 more extra line due to this.  


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Biju]

Attachment: a.html

a.html - simple document

Comment 2

[Biju]

Attachment: b.html

b.html 
An extract from mail i received from MS Outlook

This is the case where I have more consern

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Biju]

Still occurs

Steps to reproduce.
1. In thunderbird set your mail option to TEXT mode
2. Ask your friend who is using outlook to send HTML mail to you
3. Receive it in thunderbird
4. Reply with quote
5. user see extra lines, when there is a line break

Comment 5

[:Hb]

Probably this is a duplicate of bug 351814.

Comment 6

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, untouched DOM/Storage bug's priority.

If you have reason to believe, this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.