30142 - XHTML served as text/html doesn't render

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 29125

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Tim Taylor]

An XHTML document served with a mime type of text/html doesn't render.

Expected behavior:  XHTML served as HTML should render as HTML.

Actual behavior: page doesn't render (the viewer remains solid black) in M14.  A
side effect is that the viewer area doesn't repaint.  Unless you reload, or have
a rendered document visibile.

Workaround: remove <?xml version="1.0"?> from the XHTML and the page renders as
expected.  The document is now invalid XML, however.

Additional Info:

XHTML served as text/html does render in M13.

Specifying color and background styles on the BODY element had no effect (i.e.
it isn't black on black).

Comments:

It appears that the document source takes precedence over the content type
specified by the server.  Since near-term XHTML support is up in the air for
Mozilla, and since the entire point of XHTML is to have a single source document
that can be served as both HTML and XML for backwards compatibility, I think
this bug is fairly serious.  In other words, please consider how this bug
defeats the purpose of XHTML and content negotiation before putting this bug on
the back burner with all the other XHTML bugs.  However, I don't suppose to know
how severe this bug is in relation to all others, so I've left severity at
"normal".

Comment 1

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

This is hopfully fixed by now...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29125 ***

Comment 2

[Richard Zach]

Verified dup.