Open Bug 552634 Opened 14 years ago Updated 2 years ago

an empty page is displayed, instead of the real content

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Navigation
Version:
1.9.2 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: robert.rothhardt, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

Version 3.6 of firefox seems to have a problem in displaying xhtml web-pages. The problem occured directly after changing from version 3.5.9 to 3.6

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Update from any version to firefox 3.6
2.try to display "http://www.uhu.mpgmuenchen.de/index.php?page=367"
3.you won't see anything (sometimes the page is displayed for a short time and is then vanishing...)
Actual Results:  
i updated firefox

Expected Results:  
it should display the page as it did before
Fehler: Nicht definierte Entität
Quelldatei: 
Zeile: 9, Spalte: 9
Quelltext:
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><a href="index.php?page=2724">Normalhyperbel</a></td></tr>
I guess the page has changed by now. But as Robert's error message shows, there seemed to be one or more &nbsp; in the page. I had a problem with that, in an xhtml page myself today too. &#160; works fine though.

http://techtrouts.com/webkit-entity-nbsp-not-defined-convert-html-entities-to-xml/

From that page: "The only named entities for XML are &amp;, &gt; and &lt;. For all others you need to use the Unicode character code (eg. &#160;)."

I'm not sure whether XHTML does know more named entities though, maybe it should and Firefox is now parsing it wrong.
Thanks for this "official" reply. As you mentioned, I already found it out myself.
Well, just to be clear. My reply was actually twofold. First to explain the situation here (in case someone else comes to this page trying to find a solution).

But more importantly, placing the question whether &nbsp; isn't perhaps defined in the xhtml definitions and Firefox then incorrectly not accepting it.
Version: unspecified → 3.6 Branch
Component: General → Document Navigation
Product: Firefox → Core
Version: 3.6 Branch → 1.9.2 Branch
Severity: normal → S3
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