182790 - First link broken, parser doesn't see the first <a href tag when it's at the start of the page

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Chris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021127
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021127

When you start a page with a <a href=""> tag starting as the first character on
the page, the tag is ignored! If you put any character in from of it, the link
tag gets parsed correctly.

See http://www.chabotc.com/test.html for the broken example
See http://www.chabotc.com/test2.html where it does work (there's a char before
the link tag, and it gets picked up)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

another case of bug 182500? WFM 1.3a, Linux

Comment 2

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

I have tested that this bug was an instance of bug 182500 / bug 182253 based on
comparison of two Linux builds compiled with gcc 3.2.  This bug was present in
the 1.2 release and was the only bug fixed in the 1.2.1 release (and the reason
for the 1.2.1 release).

Marking this bug as fixed since it should be fixed in the 1.2.1 release.

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 183490 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Chris]

Confirming fixed in 1.2.1

Thanks guys.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 183428 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 183651 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***