43458 - HTML comments are sometimes rendered as text

Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Stephen Ostermiller]

Sometimes comments in an html document make it onto the screen.  This problem is
not reproducable on a regular basis.  If you see comments, refreshing the page
will usually get rid of them.  I have seen this problem several times on http:
//www.theonion.com

I have a screenshot of it happening on the main bugzilla page, which I will
attach.  In my experience, if the comment contains commented out html, < and >
surrounding the comments will be replaced with [ and ] before being displayed.
(Seen on the onion).

I have seen this with several versions of the browser under liunx.  The build I
am using now is 2000061220.

Comment 1

[Stephen Ostermiller]

Attachment: screenshot of this bug on bugzilla

Comment 2

[Stephen Ostermiller]

The comment that usually appears on the onion is the one that looks like this:

<!-- [[!~~ Notice Begin ~~]] [[TABLE VALIGN="TOP" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING=
"3" BORDER="0"]] [[TR]][[TD COLSPAN="1" ROWSPAN="1" BGCOLOR="#007733"]] [[FONT
COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif" SIZE="1"]]
[[B]]Notice[[/B]][[/FONT]] [[/TD]][[/TR]] [[TR]][[TD WIDTH="130" COLSPAN="1"
ROWSPAN="1" BGCOLOR="#DDDDDD"]] [[TABLE WIDTH="100%" VALIGN="TOP" CELLSPACING=
"2" CELLPADDING="3" BORDER="0"]] [[TR]][[TD COLSPAN="1" ROWSPAN="1" BGCOLOR=
"#BBBBBB" ALIGN="LEFT"]] [[FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana, Arial, Geneva,
Helvetica, sans-serif" SIZE="1"]] [[B]]The Onion[[/B]] will return on mm dd,
yyyy.[[/FONT]][[BR]] [[/TD]][[/TR]][[/TABLE]] [[/TD]][[/TR]][[/TABLE]] [[BR
CLEAR="ALL"]] [[!~~ Notice End ~~]] -->

It appears that the site does the character replacement, not mozilla.

Comment 3

[Eric Pollmann]

This bug has been fixed in recent builds, please try a more recent nightly 
build.  Thanks for catching it though!  :)

Comment 4

[gerardok]

massive update for QA contact.

Comment 5

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Reassigning QA Contact for all open and unverified bugs previously under Lorca's
care to Gerardo as per phone conversation this morning.

Comment 6

[Stephen Ostermiller]

This bug should be closed.  It was fixed a couple builds before I got around to
reporting it and I haven't seen it since.

Comment 7

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

SPAM. HTML Element component deprecated, changing component to Layout. See bug
88132 for details.