Closed Bug 191419 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

"View Selection Source" shows missleading source

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: View Source, defect)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
View Source
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 164906

People

(Reporter: hossman, Assigned: doronr)

Details

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(1 file)

Good sample page
701 bytes, text/html
Details 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021205 Debian/1.2.1-1.01
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021205 Debian/1.2.1-1.01

When using the "View Selection Source" option, the source displayed is not
neccessarily the source of the page, which is very missleading to people.

The most noticable difference is HTML entities. <, > and & are
displayed, but numeric codes are not, they show up as whatever character they
represent (except for <, > and & which show up as their named
equivilents)

There are lots of other differences, many of which seem to be changes that are
made to "fix" the HTML -- things like adding <p></p> tags, removing the "/" from
xml style singleton tags (ie: <hr/> becomes <hr>)

I'm justing guessing about the "fixing" thing, I don't pretend to understand the
current state of HTML enough to know what's right or wrong, but it seems to me
that showing people "source" which isn't acctually in the document is very
missleading.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open any page
2. "Select All" from the "Edit" menu
3. "View Selection Source" from the context menu
4. "Page Source" from the "View" menu
5. Compare the differences in the two windows

Actual Results:  
The contents are very different

Expected Results:  
Everything between the <body></body> tags in the first window should be
identicle to everything between the <body></body> tags in the second window.

I'll attach a good sample page in a moment.
Attached file Good sample page — 

    
    

    
  
dup of bug 164906?

    
    

    
  
****.

yeah, definitely a dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 164906 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE

    
    

    
  
my dup, my close
Status: RESOLVED → CLOSED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey

    
  
Product: SeaMonkey → Core Graveyard

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