365953 - Alternate content of <iframe> not used when converting page to text

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Serializers, defect, P5)

Description

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

When saving a page as text, any alternate content of an <iframe> (that is, the stuff between <iframe> and </iframe>) is simply discarded, along with the <iframe>'s visible content.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Attachment: test case

Steps to reproduce:
1) Load this testcase into Firefox
2) File | Save Page As... ; set "Save as type" to be "Text files"; select appropriate name (Fx 2.0 isn't properly appending a ".txt" extension).
3) View the saved text file.

Actual results:
Only reads:
  Following is an <iframe>:

Expected results:
Should read:
  Following is an <iframe>:
  [Alternate <iframe> representation: just some text]

Comment 2

[Kent James (:rkent)]

I'm having a related problem which probably represents a use case of this same bug. In mailnews, rss feeds use iframe alternate content to represent the summary of the feed. I want to apply the mailnews bayesian filter on the saved feed summary using a plaintext document serializer. I expect to see all of the text in the iframe in my result, but I just get blank. As a workaround, I may manually replace the iframe tags in my content with something like a div.

Comment 3

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority and severity.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.