bug in handling of form textarea data

Tue Sep 21 11:16:02 PDT 1999

Reproduced on OW 3.0 (on OS X Server) and OW 2.7b3 (Intel):

When the fragment of html shown below is rendered in Omniweb, some  
strange things happen.  Specifically, the upper case "H1" tags get  
transformed to lower case, and the quotation remarks around the name="tag"  
get removed, i.e. it appears as name=tag.  (The quotation remarks around  
the href value are not removed.)

Both of these bugs will cause problems when dealing with XML (or XHTML)  
code, whose tags are case sensitive and whose variable=value pairs require  
double-quotes around the value.

	<form>
	<textarea rows=18 cols=80 name=source wrap>
	<html>
	<body>
	<H1>Upper case tag</H1>
	<h2>Lower case tag</h2>
	<a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/">quoted link</a>
	<br>
	<a name="tag">quoted tag</a>
	</body>
	</html>
	</textarea>
	</form>

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Colin Allen
http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/