311299 - MSAA: no line breaks with preformatted text (pre tag)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 312747

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[James Teh [:Jamie] (away returning 12 Jan)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051005 Firefox/1.6a1

Preformatted text (i.e. text within <pre> and </pre> tags) should be rendered 
exactly as it is written between the tags, including line breaks. This does 
occur correctly on screen, but the information reported by MSAA has the line 
breaks stripped as if the pre tags were being ignored.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load any page containing preformatted text. Any Bugzilla bug will do nicely.
2. Examine the MSAA information for the preformatted text. Observe that line 
breaks contained in the preformatted text (e.g. the description of a Bugzilla 
bug) are replaced with spaces.
Actual Results:  
The MSAA information for the preformatted text was stripped of line breaks.

Expected Results:  
Line breaks should be preserved when rendering MSAA information for 
preformatted text.

The following html preformatted text block will easily demonstrate the problem:
<pre>This is a
test

with line
breaks.</pre>

Comment 1

[James Teh [:Jamie] (away returning 12 Jan)]

Appears to be fixed in latest trunk (build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051020 Firefox/1.6a1). Note that JAWS
does not render blank lines as it should within pre tags (i.e. ignores a line
without text), but I have checked this with MSAA and this seems to be a JAWS
issue. Oddly enough, it renders blank lines within pre tags correctly in IE. Thanks!
Btw, should I be marking bugs such as these as fixed or let the dev team handle
that?

Comment 2

[Aaron Leventhal]

The developer is supposed to mark it fixed, but I didn't see this and filed bug 312747, which is marked RESOLVED VERIFIED.

In the future you could help verify bugs and mark them VERIFIED.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 312747 ***

Comment 3

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527381