363794 - rendering halts when self-closing tags are present

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bryan Culver]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061204 GranParadiso/3.0a1

When the valid use of self-closing tags are used on a site, rendering is halted. Once removed and changed to the less clean <meta ...></meta> or other tags are used, rendering is fine. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
Only HTML styling in CSS is processed, rest is halted.

Expected Results:  
Entire site is processed/rendered. Use current public version of FFx to see real results.

If needed, I can create a demonstration page, but due to time constraints and anger, I have neglected to make one.

Comment 1

[Erik Fabert]

Your page violates the HTML compatibility guidelines:

http://qa-dev.w3.org/appc/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdarkrockstr.com%2F

Comment 2

[Bryan Culver]

I'm sorry but I do not need to worry about HTML Compatibility. Here's why:

First, my code is valid XHTML 1.0 Strict. Wanna doubt me? http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdarkrockstr.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline <- Go there.

Second, I am using the 'application/xhtml+xml' media type which is for documents that are not HTML compatible (http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-xhtml-media-types-20020801/)

Third, although my code will turn up errors in the HTML compatibility site you have given, I am not using the media type that says my code is HTML compatible.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Your server is actually sending "text/html" as the mime type, as you can see using http://web-sniffer.net/ or Firefox's "Page Info" feature.  Fix that and the problem should go away.

As Phil Ringnalda said in bug 362765, "content-type in a meta element doesn't affect whether or not we treat your XHTML as real XHTML or as Appendix C 'HTML', only the content-type header does."

Btw, your problem isn't from the <meta />, it's from the <script />.  Unclosed meta tags are fine in HTML, but unclosed script tags are not.