222581 - Flash movie doesn't respect alignement Left Top and move up movie in flash area.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Stéphane Faure]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

In the page at http://www.up-d8.com  ,
The flash movie must be correctly positionning on the left top of the "flash
area" declared in embed tag. But the movie is positionning out of the "flash
area". it seems to be a bad interpretation of salign parameter (value=LT) in
embed tag. The browser doesn't give a correct information of positionning to the
plug-in ? This bug doesn't exist on the previous version of Mozilla 1.4 
and Mozilla firebird 0.6. So it's not a plugin bug ?
(plugin flash version 7.0.14 )


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. embed flash with a salign=LT
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
see the URL example : http://www.up-d8.com

Expected Results:  
flash movie must respect Left Top positioning.

This bug doesn't exist on the previous version of Mozilla 1.4 
and Mozilla firebird 0.6  So it's not a plugin bug ?

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

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Comment 2

[Sylvain Tenier]

got the same results under linux with this test page
http://www.nejmensi.com/test.html

With galeon 1.3.8 (based on mozilla 1.4 I think) the red box is at the top left
With firebird 0.7 it is (wrongly) centered.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

Comment 3

[carsten]

*** Bug 223059 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[carsten]

Try adding 'Stage.align = "LT";' (no ' quotes) as an internal ActionScript
parameter to confirm it's not the Flash Player.  That should align the movie
regardless of its browser environment. Might also be a temp workaround until bug
is resolved?

Comment 5

[Stéphane Faure]

Okay, thanks.
the problem can be resolved with the action script code [  Stage.align = "LT";  ]
I've done on my website. 

So please use : http://www.nejmensi.com/test.html 
to test further this bug issue.

more discussion about this bug :
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=30555

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** Bug 228651 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Osman]

Does the same on Halo France (http://www.halo.fr) the Halo Ligue ad is align
right in the middle of the page (and expands on rollover so every link under
it's expansion space is disabled).

I tried editing the align (after searching the EMBED) with the DOM Inspector and
I found out that when you align it right or middle it places the flash right in
the middle of the page but if you choose to align it to the left, it aligns it
to the right.

O_o

Sorry for my English. :/

Comment 8

[Adam Elliot]

Attachment: Test Page A

Comment 9

[Adam Elliot]

Attachment: Test Page B

Comment 10

[Adam Elliot]

Attachment: swf file for the test cases

Comment 11

[Adam Elliot]

I've run into the same issue, but I have found some other interesting info on the problem.  If you don't 
add a scale attribute to the embed tag the problem doesn't exist.  Further more this problem can be 
solved by making sure that the attribute for scale is present BEFORE the salign tag.  The problem with 
this is under Mozilla 1.5 (not sure what other versions as well) that the exact opposite is true.  A work 
around would be to use browser detection, but as I don't know when the change in Gecko (I assume the 
problem is there) occured to cause this change to take place.  I've added two simple demonstrations.  I 
don't believe this is a flash issue either as I'm using a mac and both test cases work fine in Safari which 
I believe uses the same plugin as Gecko will be using.

page_a.html (Works in newer Gecko)
page_b.html (Works in older Gecko)

Comment 12

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Reporter or anyone else still seeing this issue with the latest Firefox 3 Nightly Build and the latest Flash Plugin Version (http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/alternates/) ?
If not please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thank you.

Comment 13

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Attachment: Testcase 1

Comment 14

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Attachment: Testcase 2

Note that in attachment 275551 [details], the swf is right aligned, but in this attachment, the swf is center aligned. The only difference between the two is the ordering of the following part of the <embed> tag:

  Testcase 1: ...quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="rb" bgcolor="#33ccff"...
  Testcase 2: ...quality="high" salign="rb" scale="noscale" bgcolor="#33ccff"...

This might be expected behavior (I don't know enough about the <embed> tag to know if ordering matters), but it's definitely strange.

Comment 15

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Note: I see the same behavior using Firefox 2.0.0.6 as well as the latest Minefield (2007-08-06) build on Windows Vista.

Comment 16

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Moving to Core::Layout for better triage.

Comment 18

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

We're in the process of removing support for plugins (bug 1677160) and bug 1687239 has removed the relevant Layout code, so this bug is irrelevant now.