355188 - Putting stuff before DOCTYPE

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Owen Watson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060729 SeaMonkey/1.0.4

Any material put before DOCTYPE seems to be deleted; however, cookies often need to be allocated before DOCTYPE is called.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Put material eg <?php session_start(); ?> before <!DOCTYPE in file
2.Open with SeaMonkey
3.Bingo: it's gone in Source View



Expected Results:  
Left the <?php session_start(); ?> in its place

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

I think NVU (standalone composer) already supports <?php ... ?> tags. Maybe SeaMonkey Composer will do so one day, too.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59985 ***

Comment 2

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

bad status, reopening

Comment 3

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I think NVU (standalone composer) already supports <?php ... ?> tags. Maybe
> SeaMonkey Composer will do so one day, too.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59985 ***

No, this is not a dup.
What the reporter asks for is just impossible in the world of Gecko,
where the document goes through a parser. It is possible to handle
the xml-stylesheet PI because it's directly related to a processing
model and the storage of the stylesheet is done through the CSS Object
Model. BUT, since the PI lives outside of the root element of the
document, there is no way it can be stored in the DOM.

For a php PI, we have no processing model, no storage and still no
way to make it live in the DOM. It's then impossible.

Comment 4

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Ah ok alright...

Comment 5

[Owen Watson]

So there is no way to issue cookies thru PHP in the existing model?