RESOLVED FIXED 11692
REGRESSION(r17352): Disappearing page title 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11692
Summary REGRESSION(r17352): Disappearing page title
Matt Lilek
Reported 2006-11-26 00:51:21 PST
The page title (in both the title bar and tabs) seems to randomly disappear on certain websites, despite <title> being here in the source. The title displays fine while the page is loading, but once its done, it disappears. Steps to reproduce: 1. Load the url linked in this bug 2. Refresh the page a couple times - the title should disappear. (Cmd + clicking a link on the page seems to be easier to reproduce for me though)
Attachments
Screenshot of "Flash Player Installation" in the title (26.47 KB, image/png)
2006-12-17 07:37 PST, David Kilzer (:ddkilzer) 		no flags
Details
Patch (1.24 KB, patch)
2007-01-22 18:54 PST, Mark Rowe (bdash) 		mjs: review+
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Matt Lilek
Comment 1 2006-11-26 01:13:32 PST
http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/changeset/17352 appears to be the cause.
David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)
Comment 2 2006-12-17 07:32:21 PST
Why does the title tag look like this: <title>Welcome to goComics Web Site featuring FoxTrot - Online Comics, Editorial Cartoons, Email Comics, Political Cartoons</title> But when the page is loaded in Safari, the title bar looks like this: Welcome to goComics Web Site featuring FoxTrot - Flash Player Installation Is Flash modifying the title via DOM manipulation somehow!?
David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)
Comment 3 2006-12-17 07:33:05 PST
(In reply to comment #1) > http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/changeset/17352 appears to be the cause. See also Bug 11853.
David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)
Comment 4 2006-12-17 07:37:06 PST
Created attachment 11894 [details] Screenshot of "Flash Player Installation" in the title Screenshot of locally-built debug build of WebKit r18256 using Safari 2.0.4 (419.3) on Mac OS X 10.4.8 (8L127).
Mark Rowe (bdash)
Comment 5 2007-01-22 17:23:37 PST
The change of title to mention Flash Player installation is explained by some JS in the source of the page: // Stored value of document title used by the installation process to close the window that started the installation process // This is necessary to remove browser windows that will still be utilizing the older version of the player after installation is complete // DO NOT MODIFY THE FOLLOWING TWO LINES document.title = document.title.slice(0, 47) + " - Flash Player Installation"; var MMdoctitle = document.title;
Mark Rowe (bdash)
Comment 6 2007-01-22 18:12:48 PST
The title goes blank because somewhere along the lines a JS file related to advertising is loaded from <http://servedby.advertising.com/site=681019/size=160600/bnum=84894465/optn=1>: var ADSERVER_POPS_VAL=0; document.write('<HTML>'); document.write('<HEAD>'); document.write('<TITLE>&nbsp;</TITLE>'); document.write('</HEAD>'); document.write('<BODY>'); document.write('<OBJECT classid=\'clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\' codebase=\'http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0\' WIDTH=160 HEIGHT=600>'); document.write('<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE=\'http://bannerfarm.ace.advertising.com/bannerfarm/96673/160x600.swf?clickTag=http://servedby.advertising.com/click/site=0000681019/mnum=0000370443&siteValue=0000681019\'>'); document.write('<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>'); document.write('<PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=opaque>'); document.write('<EMBED src=\'http://bannerfarm.ace.advertising.com/bannerfarm/96673/160x600.swf?clickTag=http://servedby.advertising.com/click/site=0000681019/mnum=0000370443&siteValue=0000681019\' quality=high wmode=opaque WIDTH=160 HEIGHT=600 TYPE=\'application/x-shockwave-flash\' PLUGINSPAGE=\'http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\'></EMBED>'); document.write('</OBJECT>'); document.write('</BODY>'); document.write('</HTML>'); I get the feeling it's supposed to be loaded in a popup window or perhaps an iframe rather than inline. It's not clear to me why the title affects the main document but none of the other changes do. After a few minutes of looking I can't see where it's loaded from. More investigation is needed.
Mark Rowe (bdash)
Comment 7 2007-01-22 18:49:57 PST
There are two factors at play here: in shipping Safari, sitting the document title via JavaScript to a non-breaking space (either via document.write or document.title) results in no change to the displayed title though document.title does reflect the change to the title. In ToT we respect the change and display the new title. This explains why the bug is not visible in shipping Safari. The second factor is that if we encounter a <title> tag, set the document title via JavaScript, then encounter a second <title> tag we will set the document title to the contents of the second <title> tag. In Firefox the title remains at what was set via JavaScript. This explains why the bug isn't visible in Firefox. I'll prepare a patch that makes our behaviour match Firefox.
Mark Rowe (bdash)
Comment 8 2007-01-22 18:54:56 PST
Created attachment 12616 [details] Patch No layout tests included, will add some after lunch. It doesn't seem like we'll be able to test for the first issue that I mentioned in comment 7, but the second should be testable.
Maciej Stachowiak
Comment 9 2007-01-22 18:56:40 PST
Comment on attachment 12616 [details] Patch r=me
Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
Comment 10 2007-01-22 19:41:25 PST
Please see the WHATWG specs for <title> as well: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-title1 http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#title3 They were based on reverse engineering existing browsers and looking at existing content and should represent the optimum possible implementation path. Feedback is, of course, welcome.
Mark Rowe (bdash)
Comment 11 2007-01-22 20:54:11 PST
Change landed in r19038.
Mark Rowe (bdash)
Comment 12 2007-01-22 21:15:55 PST
Reading over the specification that Ian linked it's quite clear our current behaviour doesn't match up. My change also introduced a layout test failure. I'm working on a more complete fix at the moment.
Mark Rowe (bdash)
Comment 13 2007-01-22 23:52:10 PST
Closing this bug as patch was landed. Bug 12375 covers the layout test failure that was introduced.
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