Closed Bug 609542 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

HTML comment display error

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 214476

People

(Reporter: sefler, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.41 Safari/534.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-CN; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Just type the HTML text and you'll will see the BUG,Ahhhaa~
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>BUG Found!!!!</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
	<!-- FireFox3.6.8 on WinXP SP3~~What a wonderful BUG! Ahhaaa~-- -->
</div>
</body>

</html>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a text file
2.type in
Just type the HTML text and you'll will see the BUG,Ahhhaa~
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>BUG Found!!!!</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
	<!-- FireFox3.6.8 on WinXP SP3~~What a wonderful BUG! Ahhaaa~-- -->
</div>
</body>
3.rename it to "xx.html" and run it in firefox
Actual Results:  
<!-- FireFox3.6.8 on WinXP SP3~~What a wonderful BUG! Ahhaaa~-- --> 

Expected Results:  
Nothing should be displayed
create an empty html file, type in the following text in and run in firefox3.6.8 on WinXP SP3:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>BUG Found!!!!</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
    <!-- FireFox3.6.8 on WinXP SP3~~What a wonderful BUG! Ahhaaa~-- -->
</div>
</body>
HTML 4 specifies comment parsing like this, but no browser other than Mozilla
actually implemented it correctly.

HTML5 has now changed the way comments are parsed to match those browser bugs..
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
To be clear, this will be "fixed" in Firefox 4.
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