ID: 47210 Updated by: paj...@php.net Reported By: queen dot zeal at gmail dot com Status: Bogus Bug Type: DOM XML related PHP Version: 5.2.8 New Comment:
hint of the day: tidy Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-01-24 17:38:02] scott...@php.net As Rob said, it's invalid HTML and not the goal of the extension, we're not trying to be a web browser here. If you think we should change it then we welcome you patches so we can do this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-01-24 17:29:31] queen dot zeal at gmail dot com My suggestion: use Gecko instead of libxml. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-01-24 17:26:46] queen dot zeal at gmail dot com Description: ------------ Re: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47209 I don't agree with the closure of the bug report and since it would appear that I cannot make further posts since the report has been closed, I'm making a new one. Anyway, that the HTML in the above bug report is invalid doesn't mean that it's processing can't be improved upon. Dismissing this as even a bug is rather like dismissing a buffer overflow in unserialize() because the input is invalid. In both cases, the processing of invalid input needs improvement. In this case, it's not a security issue, but that doesn't mean it's not an issue, all the same. Closing the bug report saying, simply, that it's invalid HTML, and leaving it at that is rather like the Firefox developers saying "it's invalid HTML" and leaving it at that. Seriously, half the web contains invalid HTML - browsers parse it, for the most part, without any problems. Maybe you think Firefox should just refuse to render any HTML that's invalid? If they did that, I can guarantee you that people would begin to abandon Firefox left and right and Internet Explorer would regain the market dominance they once had. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=47210&edit=1
