RE: gitweb not friendly to firefox?

From: Li Yang-r58472 <leoli@freescale.com>
Date: Mar 2, 2007, 02:28 UTC
Message-ID: <989B956029373F45A0B8AF02970818902DA75D@zch01exm26.fsl.freescale.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070301140046.GM57456@codelabs.ru>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rea-git@codelabs.ru [mailto:rea-git@codelabs.ru]
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:01 PM
> To: Raimund Bauer
> Cc: Li Yang-r58472; git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: gitweb not friendly to firefox?
> 
> > > Line Number 43, Column 38:<tr><td>author</td><td>Li Yang
> > <LeoLi@freescale.com></td></tr>

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> >
> > Try to save the output and verify it with some other xml-parser. The
> > "<LeoLi@freescale.com>" seems to be the culprit here, since "@" is

no

> > allowed character for a xml-tag, and there maybe is some

html-escaping of

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> > the email address missing?
> 
> I think that the situation is simpler: <LeoLi@....> is taken as the
> XML/HTML tag and it
> - does not closed anywhere,
> - has the wrong syntax, since "@" and "." can not live inside the
> tag name if memory serves me right.
> 
> The proper thing is to replace "<" with "&lt;" and ">" with "&gt;".

Yes, you are right. But why gitweb didn't do that for me? I observed that some early version of gitweb doesn't have this problem. Is it possible that some new change caused this?

- Leo