517855 - execCommand(bold | italic | underline | hilitecolor | fontname) does not change the already applied formatting when styleWithCss is true and the selection contains a HTML comment

Status: UNCONFIRMED

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

Description

[Dan POPA]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2

execCommand(bold | italic | underline | hilitecolor | fontname) does not change the already applied formatting when styleWithCss is true and the selection contains a HTML comment

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the midas demo and check the "View HTML source" checkbox.
2. enter the following content:
<span style="font-weight: bold; ">bo<!-- comment -->ld</span><br>
<span style="font-style: italic;">ita<!-- comment -->lic</span><br>
<span style="text-decoration: underline; ">under<!-- comment -->line</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Courier;">font<!-- comment -->name</span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102); ">fore<!-- comment -->color</span><br>
<span style="background-color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">hilite<!-- comment -->color</span><br>
3. select the text for each command ID and apply the specified command
Actual Results:  
 Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
The formatting should change.

Comment 1

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

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

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.