Closed Bug 28823 Opened 25 years ago Closed 24 years ago

" & < > and © are not parsed correctly

Categories

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P4)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: HTML Parser
Platform:
x86
Windows NT
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED WONTFIX
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: emk, Assigned: rickg)

References

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URL
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Details

(Keywords: testcase) 

Steps to reproduce:
1. Launch Mozilla.
2. Navigate to http://www.os.rim.or.jp/~yuu/charrefhelp2.html
   (This is Japanese page. However, all you have to do is to see
    inside a table)

Actual result:
Mozilla treats &LT; as "<", &AMP; as "&", and so on.

Expected result:
At least in standard mode, &LT; should not be parsed as "<", &AMP; 
should not parsed as "&", and so on.

More information:
SGML declaration for HTML 4 contains the following declaration:

NAMECASE ENTITY NO

This means that entity names are case sensitive.
&LT; is not same as &lt;.

I'm using latest build using cvs.
I'm included to mark this wontfix for two reasons: 
1. we operate the same as IE and nav4x (which both render uppercase entities)
2. there are far bigger problems to address
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
If this is a HTML 4 compliance issue how can it be WONTFIX?
I have to say it seems rather weird to do some entity parsing case-sensitively
and some case-insensitively.  I agree that this bug perhaps should be fixed in
strict mode, but it's not very serious.  I'm reopening it (and P3->P4) with the
suggestion that it be resolved LATER or REMIND or be assigned to
nobody@mozilla.org (or whereever unowned bugs go these days), mainly because I
agree that an HTML 4.0 compliance issue shouldn't be marked WONTFIX.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Priority: P3 → P4
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
Summary: &QUOT; &AMP; &LT; &GT; and &COPY; are not parsed correctly → {html4}&QUOT; &AMP; &LT; &GT; and &COPY; are not parsed correctly
English version arrived. (Thanks, yuu Morita!)
Changing URL.
URL: http://www.os.rim.or.jp/~yuu/charrefh... → http://www.os.rim.or.jp/~yuu/charrefh...
We are not shipping our Strict DTD for beta1, so compatibility with IE and nav 
is all we can do. I'll mark this remind for our STRICT DTD.
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago → 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → REMIND
Reminding, this the strict DTD is here.

This is a low priority HTML correctness issue.
Blocks: html4.01
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Keywords: correctness, nsbeta3, testcase
Resolution: REMIND → ---
Summary: {html4}&QUOT; &AMP; &LT; &GT; and &COPY; are not parsed correctly → &QUOT; &AMP; &LT; &GT; and &COPY; are not parsed correctly
Low priority bug. Moving to the FUTURE list.
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Marking wont fix -- we've decided to remove strictDTD handling.
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago → 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
updated qa contact.
QA Contact: janc → bsharma
QA Contact: bsharma → moied
As per rickg's comments making verified.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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