276268 - firefox doesn't correctly ignore unknown tags of the form <% ... %>

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 72565

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[ivan jefton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

tags such as <z foo bar> are ignored. however, (and unlike internet exploder),
tags of the form <% foo bar %> are NOT ignored. Note that <z foo bar %> IS
ignored (as it should be).

And why tomcat isn't taking the "<% ... %>" out in the first place is a tomcat
issue.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on the URL. note that the JSP comment from the page displays. 
2. Do a 'view source' and you can see the comment line
3.

Actual Results:  
tags such as <z foo bar> are ignored. however, (and unlike internet exploder),
tags of the form <% foo bar %> are NOT ignored. Note that <z foo bar %> IS
ignored (as it should be).



Expected Results:  
tags such as <z foo bar> are ignored. however, (and unlike internet exploder),
tags of the form <% foo bar %> are NOT ignored. Note that <z foo bar %> IS
ignored (as it should be).

Comment 1

[ivan jefton]

URL should be http://my.confertel.net/confertel/relogin.html...

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
> 
> tags such as <z foo bar> are ignored. however, (and unlike internet exploder),
> tags of the form <% foo bar %> are NOT ignored. Note that <z foo bar %> IS
> ignored (as it should be).
> 
> And why tomcat isn't taking the "<% ... %>" out in the first place is a tomcat
> issue.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. click on the URL. note that the JSP comment from the page displays. 
> 2. Do a 'view source' and you can see the comment line
> 3.
> 
> Actual Results:  
> tags such as <z foo bar> are ignored. however, (and unlike internet exploder),
> tags of the form <% foo bar %> are NOT ignored. Note that <z foo bar %> IS
> ignored (as it should be).
> 
> 
> 
> Expected Results:  
> tags such as <z foo bar> are ignored. however, (and unlike internet exploder),
> tags of the form <% foo bar %> are NOT ignored. Note that <z foo bar %> IS
> ignored (as it should be).

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Processing Instructions are actually illegal in HTML, although they exists in
XML.  Previous reports like this were set to INVALID, although we migth ignore
them (in quirks mode only ?). See bug 59985 comment 36 and below for a possible
solution.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Well, no, <% ... %> isn't a PI, unlike <?php ... > (which isn't displayed), and
it isn't an unknown element, because % isn't a valid NAME character in HTML, so
it can't be the start of an element name. It's just invalid character data (gee,
wonder why IE chooses to hide invalid character data that looks like unprocessed
ASP?).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72565 ***