186458 - Excessive unclosed <FONT> tags causes page's rendering to end prematurely.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 58917

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Joshua E. Rodd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021208 Debian/1.2.1-2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021208 Debian/1.2.1-2

For every course in the above URL, the author chose to emit a <FONT> tag without
a closing </FONT> tag. Mozilla could only handle a few hundred nested font tags
of this kind, and ceases to display anymore lines in the table cell after that
point. Preferrable behaviour would be to ignore further <FONT> tags after the
nesting limit is reached (possibly after yelling at developers who write such
lousy HTML).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Load the URL given. Observe how the schedule stops around COMM or something (it
should go all the way to THEO).
Actual Results:  
Got the abbreviated page. Try loading the URL in Lynx; you get a warning about
all the nested tags, but it does actually render the whole schedule list.

Expected Results:  
While rendering improperly written HTML is not a priority, the page does render
properly in IE, leading web "developers" to think their bad design is OK. It
would be nice if Mozilla would render the page, too.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58917 ***