- From: Gordon P. Hemsley <gphemsley@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:14:04 -0500
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Biju <bijumaillist at gmail.com> wrote: > What should a user agent display when html content is... > > <html><body> > <%@ page language="java" %> > </body></html> > > At present IE and Safari display blank > > Firefox display <%@ page language="java" %> > > And for document.body.innerHTML browsers give > Firefox --> <%@ page language="java" %> > IE --><%@ page language="java" %> > and Safari gives blank > > Also for > <html><body> > <? some text ?> > </body></html> > > Firefox gives blank > > But for > <html><body> > abc <? echo ">" ?> xyz > </body></html> > > Firefox display... > abc " ?> xyz > > ie, all the contents after first ">" > with .innerHTML --> abc " ?> xyz > > IE in this case again hide all content till "?>" > as well as preserve content including the white space in innerHTML > > Due to these problems browsing corporate intranet with Firefox is > little irritating. > Calling help desk and asking to provide fix will get a reply that > company has standardized on IE6, so please use IE. > > > So per HTML standard in both case what should user agent display and > as well as content of .innerHTML > > Thanks > Biju > For what it's worth, I filed a Mozilla bug on a similar issue, and it was marked INVALID. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477455 Parser does not wait for "?>" to close blocks that begin with "<?" (Incidentally, Hixie didn't care all that much. :) ) Gordon -- Gordon P. Hemsley me at gphemsley.org http://gphemsley.org/ ? http://gphemsley.org/blog/ http://sasha.sourceforge.net/ ? http://www.yoursasha.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100215/9a40f3ed/attachment.htm>
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