253740 - babbage.cs.qc.edu - less than symbol improperly displayed as "&lt" instead of "<"

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Chris Lynch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

Behavior displayed on number pages, mostly with source code.  Less than always
appears as &lt instead of <.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://babbage.cs.qc.edu/STL_Docs/templates.htm
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Expected Results:  
< should be displayed

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Mozilla's behavior is correct.  The page has "&ltT", which is not a known
entity,  so we show the entity text.  What it _wants_ is "<T", which would be
the "lt" entity followed by the 'T' character.

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

Conforming summary to TFM item 10 at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new

Comment 3

[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.