15648 - parser swallows most of a document by accident

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

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

Description

[tor]

If you visit the indicated URL with apprunner and Navigator, you will see
that the mozilla parser appears to have been confused by the HTML and
swallowed most of the document.  Seen on a 10/5 evening pull on solaris/native.

Comment 1

[rickg]

Per spec, this page is not correct. You must escape your close </script> within
document.write -- this is treated as cdata.

We recognize that navigator handled this one case, but within gecko, we believe
it is more important to be correct per spec (on this issue) than completely
compatible with navigator. We can provide counter examples that break navigator.

Comment 2

[Jan Carpenter]

verified