data corruption for selection purposes

[fantasai]

Opening a document in Composer, doing absolutely 
nothing, and saving it adds <br> to every empty 
table cell and every newline in a preformatted block.
Apparently, this is required for selection.
Why is this behavior considered acceptable?


Relevant bug reports:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51318
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66841

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20609
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20613
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22225
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22227