109073 - sgi.com - page uses &lt instead of <

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Todd Fisher]

I've noticed this bug before and cross checked it with internet explorer. It could
be the way SGI is writting there html however, I believe mozilla is not correctly
translating "&lt" tokens into '<'

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

sample:
within in a <pre> tag this is seen:

# include &ltstring>

The source is:

# include &ltstring&gt

The source seems to be invalid - semicolons are missing: It ought to have been
&lt; and &gt;

Why one renders OK and the other not i don't know. Similar bug suggested for
evangelism was bug 89682 where the site in question later corrected invalid tags.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Evangelism.  The semicolon is optional at some points (eg if followed by
whitespace).  But "&ltstring" is bogus.  That would be referring to an
"ltstring" entity, which does not exist.  But there is no way to tell whether
the site wants "<" or "&lts;" or "&ltst;" or what.

Netscape renders it just like Moz does, dunno about IE.

Comment 3

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Mass reassign of all tech-evangelism us general bugs assigned to bc to 
doron except bc's P1 bugs. You may search for this mass reassign (it is 
305 bugs) by searching for the keyword 'greeneggsandham'

Comment 4

[Frankie]

Contact addresses are
http://www.sgi.com/cgi-bin/feedback/index.cgi?entry=website_bug&LEVEL=2&last_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sgi.com%2Ftech%2Fstl%2Fstring_discussion.html
or [e-mail]

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

i just adressed the problem to SGI in a form at their website, pointing out the
URL and occurances of erronous &lt

Comment 6

[R.K.Aa.]

And that did the trick. No erronous &lt on that page anymore.
Resolving as Fixed.