130610 - bbc.co.uk - flash plugin not recognized

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect, P1)

Description

[mmc]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020310
BuildID:    20020310

In the url above, when clicking on 'play balloonancy', I get the message:
  'Balloonacy' requires the Flash 5 plug-in.

I've this plugin installed, as about:plugins says:

File name: /home/student/mcolombo/local/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 5.0 r47
Mime Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. goto the url above
2. click on 'play balloonancy'


Actual Results:  the game (or whatever, I haven't seen it yet) does not appear.
a message states that I should install the flash5 plugin (but I alredy have it).

Expected Results:  since the plugin is present, I should be able to see the
animation.

I don't know if it is evangelism... but since the flash plugin works everywhere
else, I suppose it's the correct place.

Comment 1

[Brant Gurganus]

Confirmed
2002030908/WinXP

Comment 2

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

This is an UK site. So it should go to tristan and caillon.

Comment 3

[Frederic Bezies]

Cannot make flash animation work with flash mx (aka flash 6 plugin).

Build ID 2002050108 - WinXP - Flash 6 plugin.

Comment 4

[Mathieu Pillard [:mat]]

if (navigator.plugins && (document.layers || document.all)){ 
/* some stuff */
}

they need to change that to : 
if (navigator.plugins && (document.layers || document.all ||
document.getElementById)){

Comment 5

[Frederic Bezies]

Contact page : http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/

Comment 6

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

Contacted via online form

Comment 7

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

Got an answer from the BBC :
Hi Pascal

Many thanks for your email and kind advice. Apologies for the late
reply. We hadn't realised that Balloonacy was still live - it was meant
to be taken down off the site a while ago as it is no longer being
maintained. I have now taken the site down.

Best wishes,

Lisa G.
BBCi Comedy Website
----
Marking as Wontfix since the page is no longer maintained.

Comment 8

[Brant Gurganus]

v

Comment 9

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg