672462 - RSS titles with HTML are displayed as HTML code in Live Bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Rotis]

Attachment: Slashdot's faulty RSS display

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
Build ID: 20110615151330

Steps to reproduce:

RSS feeds like Slashdot or ArsTechnica send HTML code in their titles. FF does not display them correctly in the Live Bookmarks but shows HTML code. Even if this is a problem coming from faulty RSS feeds, FF should provide users a perfect display by silently correct this display errors. The users cannot teach every RSS webmaster to not use HTML in their subject lines. Please fix this and make the life of us FF users more easy!

Comment 1

[j.j.]

How should this be a bug?
Someone might want to put "<" symbols in title.
What do other browsers? (I'd think exactly the same?)

Comment 2

[Abdulla Alkaabi]

I would like to be assigned to this bug please, Can someone assign it to me ?

Comment 3

[YF (Yang)]

I don't think rendering it is a good idea.

Comment 4

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.