265045 - "File => Save page as => Web Page, complete" corrupts HTML around <P> tags

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 225979

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Barry Klein]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

This page is designed to show that Internet Explorer does not comply with HTML
standards because of the <comment> tag. In attempting to demostrate the problem
offline, I saved the page to disc. On loading the saved page in Internet
Explorer, it displayed differently to directly from the web.

The HTML standard indicates that the <comment> tag should be ignored and that
</P> is not necessary. By adding the </P> and treating <comment> and </comment>
as valid tags, the page formatting is corrupted.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load page http://hatethesystem.com/~shack/projects/compat/
2. Save Page as Web Page complete.
3. Load the saved page in Internet Explorer and compare with the same page
loaded in Internet Explorer from the web.
4. Compare "View source" with the saved file.
Actual Results:  
The following was saved to disc (relevant part of file only):

<comment>lp.</comment></p><p>This<comment> page is</comment>

There is another example later in the file.

Expected Results:  
The following should have been saved:

<comment>lp.<p>Thi</comment>s<comment> page is</comment>

This bug also occurs in the Windows and PC Linux versions of Mozilla.

Comment 1

[Barry Klein]

Attachment: The "Saved as..." file

This is the file that has incorrect layout in Internet Explorer

Comment 2

[Barry Klein]

Attachment: The "View Source" file

This shows what should have beeen saved.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Save as web page complete dumps the parsed DOM to disk, there's old old bugs on
this.  Please search and mark as a duplicate  Given that save as web page,
complete also modifies links to external references, its not ever going to be
exactly what the original source is, anyway.

Comment 4

[Erik Fabert]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 225979 ***