901666 - Firefox Script Debugger should ignore <script> elements with type="text/html"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(DevTools :: Debugger, defect)

Description

[Steve Owens]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.95 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Attempted to debug a page that includes a script element with the following markup:

<script type="text/html"></script>


Actual results:

Instead of launching the script debugger to allow debugging of the <script type="text/javascript"> elements and the included script files, the script debugger failed with the message
No Javascript on this page
If <script> tags have a "type" attribute, it should equal "text/javascript" or "application/javascript". Also scripts must be parsable (syntactically correct).


Expected results:

Firefox can ignore script elements that have bad javascript (e.g. syntactically incorrect), I can think of no rational justification why the debugger should worry itself about script elements marked with a type that was intended to keep the javascript engine from attempting to parse the script.

It should have simply processed all <script type="text/javascript"> elements and ignored all <script type="text/html"> elements.

Comment 1

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

Can you provide a test page that exhibits this behavior? This one works fine for me:

http://htmlpad.org/debugger

Comment 2

[Steve Owens]

You know, oddly enough I am unable to reproduce this error either.  I wish I had attached screenshots because the other day I was not able to debug any of my pages that contained "text/html" scripts.

The only thing I can think of is that I re-booted my machine over the weekend.  Perhaps this is a memory issue.  At any rate, I can't repro either.

Comment 3

[Steve Owens]

You know, oddly enough I am unable to reproduce this error either.  I wish I had attached screenshots because the other day I was not able to debug any of my pages that contained "text/html" scripts.

The only thing I can think of is that I re-booted my machine over the weekend.  Perhaps this is a memory issue.  At any rate, I can't repro either.

Comment 4

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

OK, marking as WORKSFORME. Please reopen if you can reproduce it again.