309951 - View Source arrow-key through source code stops on strange source code combination.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: View Source, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

Go to
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=input+type%3Dtext+URL&btnG=Google+Search
and view source.

Part of that source code is:
<font size=-1 color=>Results <b>1</b>

Notice the incorrect HTML, specifically, the 'color=>Results' part. If, when
viewing the source code, you hold down the right-arrow key to move through the
source code, it will stop right after the 'color=' part. The only way to get
around the '>' is to key down one line (or up one line), move over a couple
characters, move back to the line in question, and hold down the right-arrow key
again.

Not a big bug, but a bug nonetheless. And I've found that the small bugs tend to
be pointers to more serious bugs, in some cases.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=input+type%3Dtext+URL&btnG=Google+Search
2. View source
3. Hold down the right-arrow key.
4. When you get to '<font size=-1 color=>Results <b>1</b>' the cursor will stop
after the 'color=' blurb.
Actual Results:  
The cursor stops at the 'color=' blurb, and will not advance until you release
the right-arrow key, move up or down a line, and right-arrow-key over a couple
places to get around the sticking point, whereupon you can move back to the line
in question.

Expected Results:  
The cursor should have continued moving to the right rather than sticking.

Comment 1

[Uri Bernstein]

This WFM on trunk builds going as far back as July 2004 (although I do see the
problem on the 1.0 branch).

Marking WFM. Reporter, you can verify that the problem is not present in Firefox
1.5 beta 1 (download from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ ).