Closed Bug 285800 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Page rendering fails badly if the tag that linked in the external .js is closed in a single tag, rather than two

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Core & HTML
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: rmann, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 In the page at http://latencyzero.com/, a tag like <script>writeEmail("foo","bar","baz","com")</script> is used to call a JavaScript function that makes a few document.write() calls to render a mailto: <a> tag. If the <script> tag in the <head> is written like this: <script src="scripts.js" type="text/javascript"/> then the subsequent calls fail, and the page renders very badly. If instead the <script> tag is called like this: <script src="scripts.js" type="text/javascript"></script> then all is well. You'll note that the first instance is perfectly valid XML, and that the page validates without error or warning at http://validator.w3.org/ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to http://www.latencyzero.com/index-bad.html 2. Note bad rendering 3. http://www.latencyzero.com/index.html, which is identical to the other, except it closes the script tag with a separate </script> 4. Note that it works. Actual Results: Most of the page fails to render Expected Results: The entire page should have rendered. Similar behavior occurs in IE/Win. Safari works fine. XHTML compatibility seems poor.
Possibly related to Bug #107058, #88309, #247996
Rick, your page isn't XHTML since it is served as text/html.
> You'll note that the first instance is perfectly valid XML But the page is served as text/html, which means it MUST follow appendix C of the XHTML specification. Which it doesn't.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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