40741 - HTML file with no markup doesn't display

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P3)

Description

[vidur (gone)]

A file with a text/html mimetype but containing just plain text doesn't display 
in Gecko. Expected behavior would be for the text to display in the default 
font.

Comment 1

[Blake Ross]

I'm seeing this also with 52608 winme.  this a regression?

Comment 2

[Blake Ross]

Attachment: this should display plain-text in the default pref font

Comment 3

[Sean Richardson]

Attachment: file sent as text/html with no markup whatsoever

Comment 4

[Sean Richardson]

Ack! this is the opposite to the problem Rick fixed very recently, in bug 40060,
where text/plain only displayed if it /did/ have HTML markup!

Actually, if a file is sent via HTTP with the content-type "text/html",
Mozilla has no option but to believe and honour that. The unknown content
type autodetection only comes into play if the content type is not specified.

The second attachment has five lines of alpha chars and whitespace; 
rendered as HTML the line breaks should not be honoured. NN 4.7 does this right.

This problem will be rare except, perhaps, for webservers configured
to send files as text/html by default, with "README" files or the like,
but it does ammount to a loss of function, so upping severity to Major.

Comment 5

[Sean Richardson]

Should have checked before clicking on [Submit], but this problem *was* present
in the 2000-05-22-08-M16 nightly binary on WinNT, so it can't be due to the
fix for 40060.

Comment 6

[harishd]

Sounds like a serious problem and has to be addressed for beta2. Nominating for 
nsbeta2.

Note: javascript:"text" would display blank ( pointed out by vidur ).

Comment 7

[harishd]

Attachment: Patch....

Comment 8

[Peter Trudelle]

[nsbeta2+] [6/15]

Comment 9

[harishd]

Attachment: A much clearer patch.

Comment 10

[harishd]

FIXED.

Comment 11

[Jan Carpenter]

Verified
2000-07-12-11-M17 : Linux
2000-07-12-09-M17 : WinNT & Win98
2000-07-12-13-M17 : Mac