489733 - rss/live feed parsing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 263513

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[jbhernan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009040821 Firefox/3.0.9 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009040821 Firefox/3.0.9 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

very minor bug/maybe needs to be handled by source: on slashdot's live feed/rss, noticed that one of headlines had an html tag: <em> </em> today 4/22

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.bookmarks toolbar - add slashdot rss
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If firefox is supposed to remove html tags, then looks like perhaps this tag <em> is not one of the ones listed. It may be that for rss feeds, it's slashdot's responsibility to remove them.

Comment 1

[Brian Carpenter [:geeknik]]

To be honest, I'm not sure that this would be a Firefox bug.  I believe that this is something that needs to be stripped out by Slashdot's script that serves up the RSS feed, which might be an oversight on their part as I don't normally see them sprucing up the titles of their posts like this on a regular basis.