RESOLVED WORKSFORME 47082
Certain strings text nodes may be incorrectly parsed as a HTML entity 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47082
Summary Certain strings text nodes may be incorrectly parsed as a HTML entity
Andy E
Reported 2010-10-04 06:22:10 PDT
I haven't managed to figure out the special circumstances in which this occurs, but I can reproduce it consistently in WebKit nightly, Safari 5 and Chrome 6. A string consisting of an ampersand followed by an HTML entity name, BUT excluding the semi-colon suffix may be incorrectly rendered as the named entity. At the time, I assumed this to be a bug in a Markdown editor and posted the following bug report: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/66554/html-entities-bug-with-pre-tags-in-markdown-and-webkit This bug report provides further demonstration of the bug. The simplest form of reproduction is the following HTML: <html> <head></head> <body>&empty</body> </html>
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Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 1 2010-10-04 11:16:27 PDT
Both these examples render in accordance with html5lib in WebKit nightlies for me. Andy, could you please double-check? Note that "correctness" is a somewhat unclear concept here - implicitly closing named entities worked in both WebKit and Mozilla browsers, and it was correct according to SGML and HTML4. It's HTML5 draft spec that suddenly changed the rules.
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