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Package: iceweasel
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice to have a way to switch the rendering mode for a page
(quirks mode, standards compliance mode, and any other mode I'm not aware
of), pretty much the way it is possible to choose which stylesheet to use.
AFAIK, Iceweasel currently bases his decision on things like the MIME type
of the document and the presence/absence of the XML prolog, but a way to set
this explicitly would be really useful.
For example, every time I try to access a page hosted on Live
Spaces (http://spaces.live.com), Iceweasel reports an XML parsing error and
doesn't display the page: this is because the file is served as
application/xml+xhtml (thus triggering standard compliance mode), but is in
fact a naughty mix of HTML 4.01 and XHTML.
While I agree the problem should be fixed from Live Spaces' side, having this
feature in Iceweasel would render the page accessible right now, and would be
also a useful feature for web developers.
(BTW, Window's build of Firefox doesn't seem to give the XML parsing error)
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Version: 115.12.0esr-1+rm
src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version
45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were
provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The
transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye
release in August 2021.
After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS
support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now.
Andreas
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