210545 - ni.com - &plusmn tag not rendered properly

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Joe Gerhardstein]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612

&plusmn tag on 4th bullet item does not render properly (renders as "&plusmn0.2
dB flatness across sine wave passband (9 kHz to 100 MHz)").  Renders okay in IE 6.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load web page.

Actual Results:  
Renders as:

&plusmn0.2 dB flatness across sine wave passband (9 kHz to 100 MHz)

Expected Results:  
Render "&plusmn" as symbol character.

Is this a poor HTML coding issue on the page?

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

->Parser, probably invalid, since digits are valid name characters.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yep.  That needs to be written as "±" -- as written it's asking for the
entity named "plusmn0" which Mozilla does not recognize.

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

contact https://sine.ni.com/apps/we/nicc.call_me?p_country=&p_lang_id=US&p_form_id=5

Comment 4

[Ben Basson]

Bug still exists, despite the fact that they recommend Mozilla 1.0 or greater as
a browser. 

Comment 5

[Cyrille VIVION]

[bug248549notfixed]

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.