19159 - followed links don't change color

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P3)

Description

[Tyler Ward]

That's it, followed links on Cnet news.com don't change color. I tried to look at
cnn as well to see if this is a general phenomenon, but it crashed on me, so I'll
leave that to you.

I'm using M11. I also had communicator running in the background when mozilla
crashed on me at cnn.com.


This is probably one of the bugreports that will get filed under "what not to do"
but I've got homework, so it'll have to do.

Comment 1

[Sean Richardson]

Confirmed for Windows NT running the 1999-11-17-17-M12 nightly binary.

The <A> elements on this page all seem to be surrounded in groups with <font>
tags resembling <font face="MS Sans Serif, Geneva, Helvetica" size="-2"></font>
- note that there is no COLOR attribute.

This page is built by a commercial database publishing system, "Vignette
StoryServer 4."

HTML Tidy finds *many* instances of <font> elements that are not closed before
block elements, and one or two empty <font> elements, as well as <form>s
inside tables.

Suspect that this may be another DUP of bug 991, with a previously-unseen
symptom, or be dependent on bug 991. Changing component to "Parser".

Comment 2

[leger]

Resetting QA contact from leger.

Comment 3

[rickg]

We behave exactly the same way that nav4x does.

Comment 4

[Jan Carpenter]

verified