Closed
Bug 87204
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 23 years ago
link doesnt appear as href in 6.1 but appears so in 4.x
Categories
(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
INVALID
People
(Reporter: vparthas, Assigned: bc)
References
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Details
(Whiteboard: DUPEME)
link doesnt appear as href in 6.1 but appears so in 4.x
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Component: Browser-General → Evangelism
Resolution: --- → INVALID
sorry, the link's bad (xml).
<a href="foo"/> == <a href="foo"></a>
Comment 2•23 years ago
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Verifying invalid, since evangilism bugs need to specify a URL which has the
problem.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
This a valid bug. The original URL requires a specific login.
I can be easily reproduced by creating a HTML file with the following
contents
<HTML>
<body>
<a href="http://www.news.com"/>News
</body>
</HTML>
and opening it with the Mozilla browser.
Netscape 4.7 and IE show a page with a hyperlink "News" to www.news.com.
Status: VERIFIED → REOPENED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
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Assignee: asa → bclary
Status: REOPENED → NEW
QA Contact: doronr → zach
Comment 5•23 years ago
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OK. The syntax <a href="whatever"/> is the same as <a href="whatever"></a>
So the "News" is _not_ inside the anchor. IE and 4.7 both do not do empty tags
ending with "/" properly, but that's their bug not ours.
Please update the URL field with a URL to be evangelized or resolve this invalid.
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Not too much support here to be less forgiving to compete with
commercial browsers and capture market. Only the owner can resolve
this back to invalid.
Comment 7•23 years ago
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2 cases:
1) Strict mode. Being "forgiving" would lead us to misrender perfectly correct
HTML as IE and others do.
2) Quirks mode. We would need major parser modifications to support this in
quirks mode only
See bug 84633 for what the parser people think of this bug. I recommend that
this be marked duplicate of bug 84633
Marking duplicate, since this _has_ been discussed before
Assignee | ||
Comment 8•23 years ago
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Is this filed against a site? Evangelism bugs must be filed against a site
somewhere so we can evangelize them. If this is a news.com problem, please
reopen and give me a URL. ( I found a use for INVALID Evangelism bugs after all)
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago → 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Assignee | ||
Comment 9•23 years ago
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All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for
details.
Component: Evangelism → US English
Product: Browser → Tech Evangelism
Version: other → unspecified
Updated•10 years ago
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Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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