148517 - wcad.org - Micrografx ActiveCGM plug-in no longer functions properly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Gil Kloepfer]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002052308

The Micrografx (www.micrografx.com) ActiveCGM plug-in used by www.wcad.org
functioned properly (displayed plat maps) in 0.9.9, but stopped working as of
RC1.  In RC1 a pop-up window appears indicating that the cached file cannot be
read.  Under RC3 (build ID above) the status bar constantly indicates that a
file is being transfered from www.wcad.org but nothing is really happening.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to www.wcad.org
2. The plug-in can be downloaded from http://www.wcad.org/ACGM/InLineSetup.exe
-- Plug-in must be installed
3. Select "Search Appraisal Roll" and enter an address (one that will work is
street number: 6600, street name: 183 HWY)
4. Select "View Map" (map will display under 0.9.9 (build 2002031104) but will
not under any of the 1.0 release candidates

Actual Results:  In RC1 a pop-up window appears indicating that the cached file
cannot be read.  Under RC3 (build ID above) the status bar constantly indicates
that a file is being transfered from www.wcad.org but nothing is really happening.

Expected Results:  Map should have been displayed using the plug-in

I have not downloaded a new plug-in directly from Micrografx because their
download procedure requires far too much personal information for my comfort. 
The plug-in from WCAD should work fine though as it had been in previous Mozilla
versions.

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

Donwloading newer version of plugin do not change something ! It is the same
version of plugin, the 7.1

Confirm this bug. WinXP and build 2002053106

Comment 2

[rubydoo123]

moving this to future, we will review this at a later date

Comment 3

[anthonyd]

re-tested with newest release (6-6-2002) and it seems like the map never 
finishes loading, though the throbber stops, uh, throbbing.

I can definitely confirm that it doesnt SEEM to be working on 7.0 pr1, but I 
have yet to check and see if this worked on previous versions.

I tested this on IE, and it also SEEMS to get a little further (though the map 
is never displayed) but still appears to be broken.  IE displays a broken image.

wait a minute.  As I was typing this, IE then prompted me to download some sort 
of update from MicroGrafix (makers of the plugin in question) so it could 
display TIFs.  After doing this, the map appeared.  It took several minutes for 
this 'request ' to come though.

The website itself tells me I am using an unsupported browser (netscape 7.x) 
This *COULD* be Evang, but I will have to dig through the website code a little 
bit to try and find out more.

Confirming.

anthonyd

Comment 4

[rubydoo123]

The plug-ins triage team (av, beppe, peterl, serge and shrir) have reviewed this
issue and have made the following determination:

Took a long look at this one, it looks like the referenced content vendor is
using LiveConnect, sending to Arun for evang issue.

The plug-in vendor online demos work just fine, which indicates that the plug-in
is functional. However, their installer does not recognize Netscape7.

Comment 5

[rubydoo123]

to arun

Comment 6

[Nick Bebout]

SPAM: New Components

Comment 7

[sjw]

STR doesn't fit anymore.
[closeme]