278518 - save page as complete strips blank lines from a textarea

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Serializers, defect)

Description

[0nslaught]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050114 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050114 Firefox/1.0+

After navigating to <http://www.geocities.com/storagebin123/TestCase.html>,
executing "Save Page As -> Web Page, complete" will result in a saved file in
which the blank lines in the textarea are missing and the seperate lines of text
are bunched together.

This does not seem to occur when executing "Web Page, HTML only."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Navigate to http://www.geocities.com/storagebin123/TestCase.html
2. Execute Save Page As -> Web Page, complete
3. View the saved file.

Actual Results:  
Blank lines are missing from the textarea.

Expected Results:  
Blank lines in textareas are retained.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Sounds like a serializer bug... 

Confirming, but it'd be good to have an idea of why this happens...

Comment 2

[Laurent Jouanneau]

My patch for bug 422403 (not yet landed at this time) fixes this bug. I still have to add a mochitest to verify this bug automatically.

Comment 3

[Michael Kohler [:mkohler]]

This is a mass change. Every comment has "assigned-to-new" in it.

I didn't look through the bugs, so I'm sorry if I change a bug which shouldn't be changed. But I guess these bugs are just bugs that were once assigned and people forgot to change the Status back when unassigning.