Closed Bug 12084 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

[DOGFOOD] I can get at the meta tags when I reply

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P3)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Composition
Platform:
x86
Windows NT
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: sspitzer, Assigned: akkzilla)

References

Details

in my 8-18 build, on windows, I can select a message, hit reply, position the
cursor at the top, and hit delete a few times and the meta tag info becomes
visible and I can delete it.

Meaning, I see this in the compose message area:

<!-- This page was created by the Gecko output system. --<!DOCTYPE HTML
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"

<!--ctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//

It should be noted that when I "see" that, I see "<", but when I copy and pasted
it from the compose area, it pasted as &lt;
Assignee: ducarroz → akkana
Summary: [REPLY] I can get at the meta tags when I reply → [DOGFOOD] I can get at the meta tags when I reply
Target Milestone: M11
This is an editor bug which I've seen outside of mail compose.  Meta tags and
comments need to be somehow marked as noneditable, so delete can't expose them.

I'll take a look; but Joe, is this a rules issue?
Blocks: 11091
Seth, mail isn't working for me today, and I can't seem to reproduce this in the
bare editor, though I've seen it once or twice before.  Are you still seeing
this bug?  If so, could you get the html source for the document being edited
(clicking anywhere in the edit window and typing alt-X should dump html to
stdout) and attach it to this bug report?  Thanks!
this isn't a rules issue, per se.  The meta tag is only in the document header,
and we should never be editting outside the body.  Any code relevant to
preventing this can properly be placed in nsHTMLEditor.cpp itself rather than the
rules code.
akkana, mail and news isn't working because of bug #12937

I'll get you the ALT-X output as soon as I fix #12937
Mail's working again this morning (but alt-X seems to be broken -- I'm looking
into that, maybe someone turned on the nonworking , but I think this editor bug
has since been fixed ... at least, I can't reproduce it.  Let me know if you
still can.

When you say "position the cursor at the top", you mean in the reply headers of
the quoted message, not the main body of the message, right?
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
This bug seems to be gone.  Please open it if you find there's a way you can
still reproduce it.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
verified.  The meta tags don't show up anymore in a reply for HTML.  win32
1999-11-09-11-m11 build.
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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