191113 - poor html from composer

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[u32858]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212


After editing html in composer my CV looks reasonable, but the html is poor.

There is now a mixture of tags, which appear OK in mozilla, but in other
browsers are all different sizes
There is <basefont size="3">, but still composer creates HTML with various
different competing tags

I turned on the reformating option in prefs, and turned off CSS styles in prefs,
but it did not make any improvements (the CSS styles are still present even
though it is turned off)


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Edit my CV at the url above, and see what happens, 
2.change font sizes -1, +1 etc, insert table rows, paste text from other apps etc
3.

Actual Results:  
----
<small> </small></td>
      <td valign="top"><b><font size="-1">Sanyo Electric   
Ltd.</font></b><small><b>,
Digital System  R &amp;  D Centre HQ </b>(<a
 href="http://www.sanyo.co.jp/R_and_D/">http://www.sanyo.co.jp/R_and_D/</a>),
Tokyo, Japan. Research and development   of advanced 3D volumetric
real-time voxel   editing software using GNU/Linux    with Qt and
OpenGL; d</small><font size="-1">ocumenting programs    and creating a
user guide for the  final product.</font>
---

To give an example of <font> tags finishing then starting again as the next
character!:

---
      <td><font size="-1"><b>BSc  (Honours) Computer Science,     2:1,
70.44%</b></font>, <font size="-1">Anglia Polytechnic University,
Cambridge, England.&nbsp; Including programming in Assembler, C and C++;
</font><font
 size="-1">2D and 3D game software on Playstation; creating tools and
utilities to    assist on the PC development side of the Playstation
platform;</font><font size="-1">&nbsp;</font><small> Computer Networks
&amp; Communications </small><font size="-1">with Linux   and Windows;</font><font
 size="-1"> Neural Networks for Statistical Pattern Recognition</font><font
 size="-1"> and Image processing to enhance/extract patterns in images;
Design of  Distributed  Database System in Linux using file locking and
other networking  techniques.</font></td>
-----





Another mixture of <small> and <font> but also <small> starts and finishes all
the time on its own.


----
<td style="vertical-align: top;"><small><span
 style="font-weight: bold;">Investigating Decompilation Techniques
Suitable for Recovering Source Code.&nbsp; How Much Useful Infomation
can be Retrieved?</span>&nbsp; </small><small>Disertation,
</small><small>grade</small><small>pending
for </small><font size="-1"><b> MSc Computer Games
Technology</b></font><small>.</small><br>
      </td>
---


Expected Results:  
Nicely implemented standard HTML without duplicated tags throughout

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

-->core

Comment 2

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority and severity.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.

Comment 3

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

In these days, we have better style systems. So, for specifying the font size, editable apps should use CSS font-size for the compatibility between browsers and for the various environments. Therefore, this is not an issue in the editor module, this is an app level issue.