15718 - linefeeds are ignored in text/plain content

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

In an URL where the EOL character is a linefeed (^J), the linefeed is not
laid out at all.

Comment 1

[troy]

I guess this is you

Comment 2

[Akkana Peck]

This document also ends up without a body element in the content tree.  This
confuses the editor and the output code (plaintext output comes out blank,
because the html to text output sink doesn't start until it sees a body tag).
Is this normal, i.e. do we need to be able to handle content trees without a
body, or is this a bug?

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This seems fixed now just like bug 15359 and bug 15649.

Comment 4

[kipp]

Most likely this was a regression in either the html parser (which handles
plaintext documents) or the registration of content viewers. Since it's fixed
now I'm marking it fixed.

Comment 5

[Chris Petersen]

With the Oct 21 build, the problem appears to be fixed.