297588 - handling titleless rss entries should remove HTML tags

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, enhancement)

Description

[Andy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Thunderbird seems to take the first 150 characters as a title for RSS entries
without a title.  Unfortunately it doesn't remove any of the HTML tags and the
entries are illegible (see attachments).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Andy]

Attachment: how Thunderbird displays titleless entries

Comment 2

[Andy]

Attachment: how SharpReader displays same blog

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

I love to cc Robert on these kinds of bugs :)

Reporter was this with Thunderbird 1.0x or the Thunderbird 1.1 alpha? I think
this might be fixed already in the 1.1. alphas. 

Comment 4

[Andy]

1.0.2 20050317 -- I'm a bid weary of installing an alpha...

Comment 5

[Robert Sayre]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I think this might be fixed already in the 1.1. alphas. 

I suspect so as well. Anli, could you give us a demo feed to test with?

Comment 6

[Andy]

Sorry, http://www.w-uh.com/rss2.xml already started doing the filtering after my
complain so it's no longer applicable.  In your samples just remove the <title>
and put some html in the body...

Comment 7

[Robert Sayre]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Sorry, http://www.w-uh.com/rss2.xml already started doing the filtering after my
> complain so it's no longer applicable.  In your samples just remove the <title>
> and put some html in the body...

http://scripting.com/rss.xml does the same thing, I think. I can confirm that
feed is working properly with the trunk build. 

Comment 8

[Andy]

In that case I'm marking it fixed.  When is 1.1 scheduled?