Closed Bug 9567 Opened 25 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Need javascript-entity support in the content sink..

Categories

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

x86
Windows NT
defect

Tracking

()

RESOLVED WONTFIX
Future

People

(Reporter: harishd, Assigned: jst)

References

Details

Who owns the content sink? Not vidur, I bet.
Moving all non-DOM[012], non-crash bugs to M15.
*** Bug 17228 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
In an attempt to get my bug list in order again, marking all the bugs I have currently as ASSIGNED.
Moving on to M17
Target Milestone: M15 → M17
This bug has been marked "future" because the original netscape engineer working on this is over-burdened. If you feel this is an error, that you or another known resource will be working on this bug,or if it blocks your work in some way -- please attach your concern to the bug for reconsideration.
Target Milestone: M17 → Future
I for one would like to see this implemented. However, if there were another way to provide computed attribute values, or computed entities, that would satisfy me.
*** Bug 60544 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I personally would prefere to leave this Netscape proprietary JavaScript specific extension unimplemented since this just doesn't fit at all into the new world of XML and XHTML. In fact, the syntax of these entities makes a file non well formed (which means an XML parser is required to stop parsing the file), the character '{' is illegal after '&' and there's a whole bunch of characters typically used in javascript that make the syntax impossible to use in XML. There are ways around this, using document.write() to write out the whole tag being one way, setting the value of the element in a script later on is also possible...
Implementing the javascript entity (1) supports backwards compatibility and (2) supports the proposed "scripting macro" that is described in HTML 4.01: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/appendix/notes.html#h-B.7.1
*** Bug 65475 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 92486 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Netscape's documentation for this feature can be found at http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/js/client/jsguide/embed.htm#1013293
Is this bug going to be fixed? Some Web apps in Sun are using Javascript-entity and become unusable in Mozilla.
Giving to jst@netscape.com so he can mark it WONTFIX.
Assignee: vidur → jst
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Boo hoo.
WONTFIX.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
*** Bug 138965 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 210559 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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