277699 - HTML entities displayed differently on "View Source" and "View Selection Source"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 236465

(Toolkit :: View Source, defect)

Description

[Liron Newman]

When viewing the source of the example URL you get the following text:
<a href="mailto:test&#x25;&#52;&#x30;no-such.address.com">try to view my source!</a>

However, if you select the text and then view selection source, you see this text:
<a href="mailto:test%40no-such.address.com">try to view my source!</a>

Happens on Firefox 1.0 on Win2k and reportedly on Mac as well.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 236465 ***

Comment 2

[Liron Newman]

Attachment: Test case (same as http://eesh.net/ent.html)

Use this if the page is down for some reason.

Comment 3

[Jerry Baker]

Do we need to open a new bug that represent the view that this is a bug in the
view source, and not a window naming problem? In other words, when the bug is
fixed the view selection source will show the same identical characters as view
source.

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Do we need to open a new bug that represent the view that this is a bug in the
> view source, and not a window naming problem? In other words, when the bug is
> fixed the view selection source will show the same identical characters as view
> source.

That wouldn't work. See bug 275556 comment 1.

Comment 5

[Jerry Baker]

When I view source, I want to see the JS and not the content it generated.

Comment 6

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> When I view source, I want to see the JS and not the content it generated.

Well, you're not like most web developers. You can use View->Page Source. There
is absolutely no plan to change the View Selection Source behavior. It would be
a significant loss of functionality.