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Bug 606351 - GtkHtml editor/parser strips html anchors from links
GtkHtml editor/parser strips html anchors from links
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: GtkHtml
Classification: Other
Component: Editing
3.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtkhtml-maintainers
gtkhtml-maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks: 681371
 
 
Reported: 2010-01-07 21:39 UTC by Niall Gallagher
Modified: 2017-02-09 13:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Niall Gallagher 2010-01-07 21:39:07 UTC 
This is to report a bug in GtkHtml when used as the email composer in Evolution email client.

See the downstream report "evolution strips html anchors from links in outgoing mails": https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/422719

This bug exists in GtkHtml as used by Evolution 2.26.1 (Ubuntu 9.04), and Evolution 2.28.1 (Ubuntu 9.10). The GtkHtml version used by Evolution 2.28.1 appears to be either GtkHtml 3.14 (per the library name) or 3.28 (per the library version) - I'm not sure which version it really is.

The problem is that GtkHtml strips the anchor component of HTML links in the composer when the display text of the link differs from the target url. There are steps to reproduce the problem in the downstream report.

Let me know if you need more info. Many thanks.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2017-02-09 13:40:23 UTC 
GtkHtml is not under active development anymore. 
Evolution (its main consumer) switched to a WebKit backend a while ago. 
It is currently unlikely that there will be any further GtkHtml development.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping (bug 778387) to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.