89739 - Mozilla treats width="" as width="0"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 75250

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Build: 2001070604, Mac OS 9.1

To reproduce:
*   Open the attached testcase.

What you should see:
|
| We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
| that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, and
| that Mozilla should not assume that width="" means width="0".

What you actually see:
|
| We hold
| these truths
| to be
| self-evident,
| that all men
| are created
| equal, that
| they are
| endowed by
|...
etc. This is very tiring to read.

I see nothing in the HTML specification which says that width="" should be 
treated as width="0". None of 
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#adef-width-TABLE>,
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-length>, or
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/dtd.html#Length> say what should happen with a 
width="", and the safest thing to do would seem to be ignoring it entirely.

Comment 1

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Attachment: How Doc Searls' page looks in Mozilla currently

Comment 2

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 3

[Bernd]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75250 ***