248198 - When I save a page containing empty XHTML tags(e.g <br />), the empty tag gets replaced with its HTML4 equivalent(e.g <br /> to <br>)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 120556

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Nicholas Skehin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040621 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040621 Firefox/0.9

All empty XHTML tags have the closing / removed - so they become <tagname>
instead of <tagname/> or <tagname />.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://alistapart.com (for instance)
2. Save the page to a file.

Actual Results:  
All the <br /> tags in the page became <br>. 

Expected Results:  
Left the page as it is.

I've built Mozilla Firefox under Gentoo Linux with custom CFLAGS, but I can't
see how things this would affect it. Other than that, my system is fairly normal.

Comment 1

[Nicholas Skehin]

Attachment: What Mozilla Firefox saved the page as.

Comment 2

[Nicholas Skehin]

Attachment: What it should be saved as.

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040621
Firefox/0.9.0+

same as under Linux

I saved as webpage complete, the saved file still had <br> i/o <br/>

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

what about either of the other two options?  I know that the web page complete
option basically takes the contents of the DOM and generates the files with the
right names, not necessarily as the exact source as sent.

Comment 5

[Bill Mason]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120556 ***