243435 - View Selection Source shouldn't render HTML Character Codes.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 230710

(Core Graveyard :: View Source, defect)

Description

[jsnod]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

If the HTML source contains a character code (such as & or "), doing a
View Selection Source on the character shows the rendered character.  This is
contrary to the behavior of the regular old View Source.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. View Selection Source on a character that is encoded in the source, such as &


Actual Results:  
View selection source displays the & character

Expected Results:  
View selection source should display the proper character code (&)

This happens in both Firefox 0.8 and 1.7b (20040421).
As a developer, I just wasted an hour trying to figure out why my
convert_quotes() PHP function was not properly converting " to " ... turns
out my function was working all along, the bug was with how Mozilla displays
character codes with View Selection Source!  View Selection Source behavior
should be consistant with the regular old View Source behavior.
I will attach a test case.

Comment 1

[jsnod]

I can't seem to create a simple testcase that exhibits this bug, but I've added
a testcase URL, which validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional:

http://www.tumyeto.com/product.php?catproductid=1885

Select one of the quotes and View Selection Source, you will see the HTML
character codes rendered (the " character is displayed).

Now do a regular old View Page Source and you will see them displayed properly
as their HTML character codes (")

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] (away, back June 30)]

Dupe of bug 230710

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Once it's just a character in the DOM, there's no way to know it came from an
entity reference.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 230710 ***

Comment 4

[rbs]

> I just wasted an hour

Reporter, was that in Firefox?

Wasting so much time chasing inexisting issues can be frustrating. 
Do you think using 'DOM Source' in the title would have helped?
CC: yourself to bug 236465 if you are interested.