34198 - HTML copy and paste from a mailnews window into a mail compose window damages HTML

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P3)

Description

[tenthumbs]

If I have an HTML email messages with embedded images, i.e. a multipart/related
message, then copying the original HTML, which is laid out like
  <IMG SRC="cid:part1..." ALT="..."
  ><IMG SRC="cid:part2..." >

so that the lines are short enough for SMTP servers, gets rewritten as
  <IMG SRC="cid:part1..." ALT="...">
  <IMG SRC="cid:part2..." >

which introduces extra spacing which makes it look very different.

Comment 1

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

accepting

Comment 2

[tenthumbs]

Attachment: test message

Comment 3

[tenthumbs]

The attachment is a testcase email messsage. Change the headers if necessary and
put it where Mozilla can find it. Make sure your background color is not white
and try copy and paste.

Comment 4

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

reassign to editor.

Comment 5

[Akkana Peck]

We have a pref editor.prettyprint, currently defaulted to true, which tells the
output system to ignore the document's original formatting and instead
prettyprint the output according to our built-in rules.  (The pref is even
exposed, though unfortunately whoever put in the pref put it in backward, so it
says "maintain source formatting" when it is NOT going to maintain source
formatting ... sigh!)

Setting this pref to false will try to respect the document's original
formatting, but a warning: the reason we flipped the default to true (we wanted
it to be false) was that it was incredibly brittle and kept getting broken, and
you will probably get lots of long lines and dropped newlines.  I'd love to see
this work, personally.

Comment 6

[Kathleen :Brade]

reassign to tony

Comment 7

[anthonyd]

bumping this to future.  not relevant to embedding.

anthonyd

Comment 8

[rubydoo123]

--> brade

Comment 9

[Kathleen :Brade]

is this still a problem?
Resolve so QA can test.