299719 - Composer changes html-source in a massive way (retain orig.... CHECKED)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 92921

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Helmut Schellong]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050302
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050302

Button »Retain original source formatting« is ON.
Composer ignores the Button and changes the source in a massive way.
Especially inside <pre>...</pre>.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create <pre> area
2. Button SAVE
3. none

Actual Results:  
Inside <pre>..</pre> Composer translates all real linefeeds into <br>.
But preformatted is preformatted is preformatted.
Composer produces lines with an extremely length.
The source code is hard to understand with the cursor on column 57346!!!
An automatically update of a .html is difficult.


Expected Results:  
Composer should NOT translate real linefeeds into <br> inside <pre>..</pre>.
Additionally composer should add or retain real linefeeds after each <br>
outside of <pre>..</pre>.

An automatically update (script) of a .html is difficult.
Between patterns <h3><!--[PRB]--></h3> and so on.
<h3> is for retain a single line.
Some commands cannot work with extremely long lines,
or their work is slow!
There is no reason for building such loooong lines
or to translate into <br> inside of a preformatted area.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to bug 92921?

Comment 2

[Helmut Schellong]

Yes, without ``Button "Retain original source formatting" is ON.''.

<pre> a <br>
<b> b </b></pre>c

The Browser should display:

 a <br>
<b> b </b>
c

Comment 3

[Helmut Schellong]

If I wish to use boldface and so on, then I have to use
<tt> and &nbsp; and so on.

<pre></pre> is for including CODE (.txt, .c, ...) to display as is!