RESOLVED WORKSFORME 23382
innerHTML incorrectly converts '>' characters which is not parts of html tags 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23382
Summary innerHTML incorrectly converts '>' characters which is not parts of html tags
Joongi Kim
Reported 2009-01-16 05:43:01 PST
Sample Document: <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> </head> <body> <div id="test"> asdf&lt;asdf&gt; </div> </body> </html> Expected result of innerHTML property of #test element: "asdf&lt;asdf&gt;" Actual result of innerHTML property of #test element: "asdf&lt;asdf>"
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2009-01-16 05:49 PST, Joongi Kim 		no flags
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Joongi Kim
Comment 1 2009-01-16 05:49:22 PST
Created attachment 26791 [details] innerHTML bug example You can see how webkit is confused with entity conversion of innerHTML.
Joongi Kim
Comment 2 2009-01-16 05:50:53 PST
Comment on attachment 26791 [details] innerHTML bug example Expected result (from Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5): asdf&lt;asdf&gt;<br> asdf&lt;asdf&gt;<br> asdf<asdf&gt;><br> asdf<asdf><br> </asdf></asdf&gt;> Actual Result: asdf&lt;asdf><br> asdf&lt;asdf><br> asdf<asdf&gt;><br> asdf<asdf><br> </asdf></asdf&gt;>
Joongi Kim
Comment 3 2009-01-16 05:55:23 PST
This problem happens also in Google Chrome 1.0.154.43.
Mark Rowe (bdash)
Comment 4 2009-01-16 22:45:18 PST
I see the following with TOT: asdf&lt;asdf&gt;<br> asdf&lt;asdf&gt;<br> asdf<asdf&gt;><br> asdf<asdf><br> </asdf></asdf&gt;> That matches what Firefox gives.
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 5 2009-01-17 04:04:10 PST
Please also note that the previous WebKit behavior was formally correct, too - there is no fundamental reason to convert > to &gt;, it's just something other browser do.
Joongi Kim
Comment 6 2009-01-24 07:05:26 PST
Yes, there's no problem with NOT converting closing '>' to '&gt;', but some users of Textcube which I develope complain of this behaviour. (They and we didn't know before that this is a specific behaviour of Webkit.) Also I'm not sure that this behaviour may affect the backup-restore format called TTXML which has possibilities of contents processed by plain HTML <-> our own markup syntax conversion routines using innerHTML. We hope there be no side-effects from this.
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