694 - ALT text on images can't handle entities

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[Angus Davis]

Example:
<img src="bla.gif" width=200 height=200 alt="Hello, &quot;Quotes&quot; how are
you?">

See Nav4 or IE4 for expected behavior...

Comment 1

[troy]

Kipp says it's a know problem in the content sink

Comment 2

[kipp]

I fixed all html attributes to reduce entities a while back.

Comment 3

[Eli Goldberg]

Re-opening as a platform parity bug. URL changed to that of just the simplified
test case noted in bug report.

On 1.26.99 build of Win32 Viewer (as well as Communicator 4.5 and IE 4), the test
case displays the ALT text alongside a broken image icon.

However, on 1.26.99 build of Linux Viewer and 1.25.99 build of Mac OS viewer, the
test case simply displays a broken image icon.

[Most of the time on Mac, the alt tag will be exclusively displayed, changing to
the broken image icon upon clicking the mouse into the window region.]

Comment 4

[Eli Goldberg]

[Also, I'm not sure what bug reporter means by not handling 'entities'; does this
refer to the use & glyphs like the &quot?]

Comment 5

[Eli Goldberg]

<In a leap of the blindingly obvious, actually, I'll break the "alt text not
being displayed" problem into a separate bug report later, rather than try to
track it here.>

Comment 6

[Eli Goldberg]

[related issue described 1.27.99 broken into bug #2723]

Comment 7

[Eli Goldberg]

Verified fixed on 1.27.99 Win32, Linux & Mac OS builds.

(Quote appeared equivalent to the &quot HTML entity as displayed by raptor
outside of an ALT tag.) The line break added a box [] character, though. May
write up bug for that...

Comment 8

[Robert Sayre]

RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/testing/mochitest/tests/test_bug694.html,v
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Checking in tests/test_bug694.html;
/cvsroot/mozilla/testing/mochitest/tests/test_bug694.html,v  <--  test_bug694.html
initial revision: 1.1
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