303206 - Feedview garbles output of Unicode Characters - displays entities in text

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox Graveyard :: RSS Discovery and Preview, defect)

Description

[Bastian Grupe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050802 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050802 Firefox/1.0+

(see url)

Beltzner uses some special quotes in his blog which are displayed as “ and
” in the feed rather than converted.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the url with a recent nightly with feedview enabled
2. increase the length
Actual Results:  
Entities are displayed as-is.

Expected Results:  
Entities should be converted.

Comment 1

[Axel Hecht]

This is likely to be a dupe of bug 302749.

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

I don't think it is the same as bug 302749. This deals with how HTML character
codes are parsed within CDATA tags, which does seem to be an issue.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Now that Feedview's gone, at least it doesn't garble, and the next one shouldn't
by design.

Comment 4

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Phil, do we really want to resolve this invalid? I think the idea is to continue
to develop FeedView on trunk and try to bring it back into the fold for 2.0. It
might be useful to continue to track this issue ...

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

The feedview code is completely removed, branch and trunk, and there's no reason
to believe the same approach will be taken when it's reimplemented. If the new
implementation of feedview has a similar bug, then a new bug should be filed,
containing the right build IDs, Steps to reproduce, etc. Tracking issues that
may or may not exist in the future is not what Bugzilla is for ;).

Comment 6

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

Resetting QA Contact to default.