167308 - acute without terminating ';' is not rendered the same as in iexplorer

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[miguel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

using &aacute , for examnple, in the middle of a vord without terminating ';'
results in different behaviour than in iexplorer. I'm not a web designer, so I
don't know if it's correct, it's just different than iexplorer, so some pages
don't display correctly ( 'más' is displayed as 'm&aacutes' )
I checked and the page does't contain "DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC" so I suppose it's
being redered in "quirks mode" 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
"m&aacutes" displayed on a page

Expected Results:  
"más" shuld have been displayed

here's is the sourounding code ... note than only "m&aacutes" is displayed
wrongly, the rest of the page renders correctly

<font size="1" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">- 
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2">Los socialistas piden 
al Gobierno que dote al INEM de <b>16.000 funcionarios m&aacutes</b> para crear 
&quot;empleo de calidad&quot; </font>

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

--> Parser

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

--> Parser

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

See bug 107320 comment 2.
m&aacutes</b> seems to fulfil the requirement "immediately before a tag".

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Oops, sorry. aacute is the name not aacutes

--> INVALID