256264 - renderizes '&lang' just as it was '⟨'

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 155047

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Mauro Stangalini]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

I have to show an URL in a page:
<font color=red>www.foo.com/go/a123456&lang=italian</font>
I saw that my browser renderized it as
www.foo.com/go/a123456〈=italian
as if it was 
<font color=red>www.foo.com/go/a123456&lang;=italian</font>

It interpretes the string '&lang', WITHOUT the semicolon, as if it HAD it!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. copy this string in a text file: <font
color=red>www.foo.com/go/a123456&lang=italian</font>
2. save it as .html
3. view it in mozilla/firefox




First this bug has been reported to us by our customer. She was using a new
netscape (not sure about which version); then i visited the same page with my
mozilla and also with Firefox and i could see the problem.

Comment 1

[Richard Brodie]

This is correct behaviour; the semicolon is not always required. 



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155047 ***

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

V.

Code your HTML as <font color=red>www.foo.com/go/a123456&amp;lang=italian</font>

To get the result you expected.