134318 - Mozilla displays contents of SGML comments

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Christos Cheretakis]

In above page, there's a commented-out section of code that displays a
congratulation message for some contest. With mozilla 2002032911 on linux, the
content of the comment, which is plain HTML, is rendered on the page.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

I don't see anything out of place with linux build 20020328.  Where does the
comment show up on the page?

Comment 2

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

works for me... You are referring to the "Congratulations to our monthly contest
winner for November, David Noble of Orangeville" etc. bit that is in source
after "Submissions List"? It does not display in linux 2002031910 nightly,
2002032911 nightly, nor in cvs from today 2002033001(+02).

Comment 3

[Christos Cheretakis]

Attachment: Screenshot of the part with the comment's content

Content of page is rendered as follows:
- First the "top bar" on the top of the page, as it should
- then the sidebars on the left with the intrnal links and ads, but page on
their left is left blank
- commented out part is displayed somewhere around the end of these sidebars
- page content is displayed right after that, in full page width

will also attach a ps file as it is printed by mozilla

Comment 4

[Christos Cheretakis]

Attachment: bzipped postscript generated from this page

Comment 5

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

screen shot kde panel, that's all

Comment 6

[Christos Cheretakis]

Attachment: Screenshot of the part with the comment's content

Correct screenshot.

Comment 7

[Christos Cheretakis]

Also happens with linux/2002040211 at http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/03/13/xlink.html

Comment 8

[Per Ångström]

I have a similar problem. The URL <http://www.autark.se/sitemapper.pl?id=index>
will render incorrectly on initial load, with parts of SGML comments visible. On
refreshing the page, it will render normally.

If you don't see the problem immediately, it should be visible by choosing any
link on the page and choosing [Sajtkarta] in the top right corner on the
destination page.

I can also confirm the problem mentioned in comment #7, but I have no problem
with the original problem URL. I find that the page will render correctly on
refreshing it.

Using build 20020406-16 on Linux. Also seen on builds 0404 and 0405.

Comment 9

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

(win98 nightly 2002040408) I see the problem on
<http://www.autark.se/sitemapper.pl?id=index> as reported by Per Ångström. "*
[Utgående] END_PRIVATE(utgaende) -->" and "* [Oktober 2001]
END_PRIVATE(historikOktober2001) -->" parts appeared the first time, no problems
the second and third time, "* [Juni - juli 2001]
END_PRIVATE(historikJuneJuly2001) -->" the fourth time around. I never see the
contest winner part on any xml.com pages though.

Comment 10

[Per Ångström]

The problem I mentioned in comment #8 is still there in build 20020410-16 on
Linux. However, I can no longer see the one in comment #7. (I have never seen
the problem on the reported URL.)

Interestingly, I don't see my problem on my local mirror of
<http://www.autark.se/>, maybe because the connection is much faster. My theory
is that the problem only occurs when the content has to rendered piece-meal, as
each chunk is received from the server.

Comment 11

[Per Ångström]

In RC 1, build 20020415-23 on Linux, I can still see the problem on page
<http://www.autark.se/sitemapper.pl?id=index>. See comment #8.

It seems that I can no longer see the problem on the other pages mentioned. Does
anybody else have the same experience?

Comment 12

[Christos Cheretakis]

I've been seeing it with newer builds as well, only on oreilly sites with the
same code, but did not bother to report additional URLs. Will do so in the future.

Comment 13

[Per Ångström]

I have redesigned the page I referred to in comment #8, so it can no longer be
used to test for this bug.

Comment 14

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

I'm not seeing the problem with RC2 on OS X.

Comment 15

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Please provide a simple testcase and clear steps to reproduce.

Probably a dupe of bug 102127.

pi

Comment 16

[alge]

Christos, Tuukka, Per, do you still see this with newer builds? Works for me
with 2002071808/linux.

Comment 17

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

re comment 16: No, I still don't see anything rendered from comments in
<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/02/27/batik/index.html>... and the
<http://www.autark.se/sitemapper.pl?id=index> page was changed (comment 13) and
doesn't contain the randomly appearing comments anymore.
re comment 15: propably not bug 102127 as that would not explain the differences
on reloads.

Comment 18

[Christos Cheretakis]

Tried to reproduce with 2002071808 on linux, but was not able. It's a little bit
difficult, however, to get all these conditions to happen at once :-)

Comment 19

[alge]

Marking WORKSFORME. Please reopen if anyone sees this again..
Last reported sighting was in April.. let's hope this was magically fixed since
then.

Comment 20

[Per Ångström]

I have in vain tried to reproduce the problem by reviving the old design of the
page mentioned in comment #8, so it WORKSFORME too.