Closed Bug 526925 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

ASCII control characters does not work

Categories

(Core :: General, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows Vista
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: sin_jen, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080219 Firefox/2.0.0.12 Navigator/9.0.0.6 Build Identifier: Not even 
 works!! when Firefox gets an  (BEL) I expect it to make sound, when it gets a  (BS) it should remove the last character, etc, etc. Reproducible: Always
Note: my user agent says Navigator, but I have tested it on Firefox too.
Well, the browser is not a terminal, so why should it work? Is it required by a specification? Is it supported by other popular browsers? Is there a lot of existing content that relies on the control characters? I believe the answer to all of the above is "no", so resolving as invalid.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
(P.S. 
 is equivalent to just inserting \r\n characters in the HTML. This doesn't cause a line-break in non-"whitespace: pre" text, otherwise you'd have random line breaks all over)
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