282018 - View Source is blank with a page rendered from a javascript function.

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: View Source, defect)

Description

[Clark Pearson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

This *may* be related to bug 204779. I get the impression Moz, instead of
keeping a local copy (whether on disk or in mem) of a dyn-gen'd page, it tries
to re-execute the function that created the page and show the result of the
function call, but doesn't have correct scoping to 'find' the function.

Here's my error message - in the javascript console - when I try View Source for
my dyn-gen'd page:

Error: top.UI_Render is not a function
Source File: javascript:top.UI_Render("GTC");
Line: 1

And yes, UI_Render *is* a function in my top-level window!

Incidentally, this only happens for an embedded frame which has js-gen'd html.

(Bit late, but the keen-eyed will have noticed this is my fourth bug filed
today. All of them apply to Firefox 1.0 as well. I did say on the first, but
forgot to mention on the second and third. 282012/15/16.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. FRAMESET top-level document. e.g.
    <FRAMESET>
        <FRAME NAME=main SRC=logon.html>
        <FRAME NAME=temp SRC=javascript:top.TestWin()>
    </FRAMESET>

2. Create the html for a frame from a js func (whether from
SRC="javascript:js_func()" in the frameset-ing doc, or from
location.replace('javascript:js_func()') at some later point).

3. Open js console.

4. Right-click > This Frame > View Frame Source.

5. View Source window blank, js error shows in console.

Actual Results:  
Step 5!

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Dupe of/related to Bug 60426.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

No, not dup of that, and not related to that.

More or less a dup of bug 206531, however.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

==> viewsource

Comment 5

[Philip Chee]

SeaMonkey trunk is now using toolkit viewsource.

Comment 6

[Clark Pearson]

I'm not a developer of the product, I'm a user -- I don't know what that last comment means.  The last time I tried (a few weeks ago, with a recent version), I still got a blank View Source window.