93198 - ulaval.ca- META tag displayed in body

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: French, defect, P4)

Description

[Benjamin Mucci]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:0.9.2+) Gecko/20010801
BuildID:    2001080104

One meta tag is displayed in the body. WFM in NS4.78

Probably because the space between the "<" and "META"

< meta name="DC.format" scheme="IMT" content="text/html">

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

There's more to it than that. The offending HTML is:

<META NAME="DC.type" content="Text.x-guide"< meta name="DC.format" scheme=
"IMT" content="text/html">

The DC.type META lacks a closing tag, which is a major problem in and of itself, but isn't 
what causes the META element to display in the BODY. It is, in fact, the leading 
whitespace inside the DC.format META tag.

Even so, it doesn't make sense that this HEAD markup, however invalid, should EVER 
display in the BODY. Marking MAJOR.

Mac IE 5 does the same bad thing. iCab and Opera don't.

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Attachment: Minimal testcase

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

Also confirming under OS 9. It's probably All/All, though I can't confirm non-Mac at this 
point.

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

-> Parser. 
On Windows 98: Nav3.04, Nav4.7, Opera5.12 and IE5.0 all display the bad markup.

Comment 5

[harishd]

Per SGML spec. there cannot be whitespace[s]  between STAGO ( '<' ) and GI (
generic identifier or rather the tag name ). This page is totally whacked.
Sending over to evangelism.

Comment 6

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for
details.

Comment 7

[Greg K.]

While I agree the page is whacked, I still want to know under what circumstances
ANYTHING in the HEAD should ever, for any reason, display in the BODY. That is
what happens in the testcase, and I can't believe it should ever happen, even if
I just type a bunch of random gibberish in the HEAD.

Comment 8

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

-> Canadiens -> EURO!

Comment 9

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Component change to West Europe.

Comment 10

[Tristan Nitot]

> -> Canadiens -> EURO!


Oh, did not know that :-) I thought that the 51st US state was in America, not
in Europe. ;-)
Accepting bug. Priority : P4
Reproducing on Win2K: Platform -> All

Comment 11

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

page fixed

Comment 12

[Brant Gurganus]

v

Comment 13

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

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