70406 - Setting attrs on HTML elements should not go through stylesheet

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Currently when an attribute is set on an HTML element the elements asks the
stylesheet to set the attribute for the element. This is ass backwards, and it
complicates the attribute code and has caused bugs when using HTML elements in
XML documents that are loaded w/o being displayed (this bug has been worked
around). This should be changed so that the attribute setting code in
nsGenericHTMLElement simply does the setting itself and if there is a stylesheet
then the stylssheet should be notified, this way the code would be much cleaner
and modifying the unerlying attribute storeage would be modified easier...

Comment 1

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

This won't happend until past mozilla0.9.1 unless someone wants to jump in and
fix this...

Comment 2

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

jst, hope you don't mind my adding the helpwanted keyword.

/be

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Bugs targeted at mozilla1.0 without the mozilla1.0 keyword moved to mozilla1.0.1 
(you can query for this string to delete spam or retrieve the list of bugs I've 
moved)

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

sicking, you're working on this stuff, right?  ;)

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Isn't this fixed at this point?

Comment 6

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

yay, this was fixed a *long* time ago. Specifically on march 26th 2002 as part
of bug 41983.