313203 - Feed items fails to load (because of <object>?)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Chris Beck]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

I added the feed http://www.lifeslittleannoyances.com/node/feed to my News &
Blogs account and it retrieves entry titles, but the content is missing (view
message source shows absolutely nothing).  Adding the same feed as a Live
Bookmark in Firefox 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Add feed http://www.lifeslittleannoyances.com/node/feed to sunscription list
2.  Click on feed folder
3.  Click on individual entry

Actual Results:  
No content, no url, no headers at all in message area

Expected Results:  
The usual Subject:/From:/Date:/Website: headers should appear, along with the
content.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Reproduced with TB 1.5b2-1006, Win2K.
Not only does it not display anything, you can't View Source on the item.

There are two items on the feed: "Breaking the email Chain of Fools" and "About 
the Book"  The first starts off with an <object><embed> sandwich for loading an 
SWF; the second appears to be a completely typical RSS entry.

With TB 1.6a1-1015, loading the feed hangs; it never reports an error and never 
completes the feed-add process.  Checking the feed via feedvalidator.org, it's 
'valid but problematic' because of the <object> tag in the first item on the 
feed.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Not a problem in linux. Loads fine using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051021 Thunderbird/1.5 ID:2005102104

Comment 3

[alta88]

the url no longer exists, plus the old iframe method is no longer used, so this is likely no longer valid.