144243 - Text color ignored when not in quotes

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[crusher]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2)
Gecko/20020510
BuildID:    20020501006

A text color of "Rain Blue" (possibly others as well, did not test) is ignored
and displayed as black when it is not embedded in quotes in a <FONT COLOR=...>
tag. This is probably not a true bug, but a usability issue as many pages are
written with this kind of sloppy HTML.
(URL cannot be given as the problem was encountered in a webchat). The color
does show correctly in Ntescape 4.7 and IE 5.x

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use <FONT COLOR=Rain Blue> in a web page to color a text. Do not use quotes
around the color name.
2. Display the web page.


Actual Results:  The text so colored is displayed in black.

Expected Results:  The text should have a light blue ("rain blue") color.

All settings default. Fresh installation used for less than 2 hours.

Comment 1

[gavin long]

I've knocked up a quick testcase (will attach in a mo) based on the description
above.  Without the quotes, it doesn't work in IE6, Netscape 4.x or Moz.

Mostly because the HTML is totally broken.  

1) As far as I know "Rain Blue" has NEVER been a valid colour in HTML
2) how does the browser know that you don't mean "color=rain" "blue" as two
separate attributes?

Unless we can get a better testcase, I'll close this bug as Invalid. 

Comment 2

[gavin long]

Attachment: Testcase based on reporter's description

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Please save the problem page as "web page, complete", zip up all the files
involved, and attach to this bug.

Comment 4

[Chris Petersen]

Marking this bug invalid.