46187 - Strict DTD should warn or return something about invalid markups rather than simply ignore them

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P3)

Description

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

Reproduceable: always.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Launch Mozilla.
2. Navigate to the following testcase.

Actual result:
Invalid markup is not displayed at all.

Expected result:
Error or warning should be reported or something should be displayed to notice 
invalid markups.

Occurs on:
I observed it using cvs build on Windows 2000.

If nothing displayed, user may not notice that document have some errors.
Even worse, user may miss the critical information just because of the author's 
simple mistake.

Comment 1

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 2

[harishd]

Working on it. Assigning to myself.

Comment 3

[harishd]

Will be nice to have...but

This bug has been marked "future" because the original netscape engineer working 
on this is over-burdened. If you feel this
is an error, that you or another known resource will be working on this bug,or 
if it blocks your work in some way -- please
attach your concern to the bug for reconsideration. 

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

See bug 48699 for how to send errors to the JS console.

Comment 5

[rickg]

Marking wontfix. We've decided to punt on strictDTD for 6.0.

Comment 6

[Jan Carpenter]

verified