16524 - Site auto-detection of plug-ins broken by mozilla

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Peter Grandmaison]

Using Milestone 10, with the Flash plug-in installed, go to
http://www.macromedia.com/

The site dynamically generate's it's navigation page based on your browser --
for instance, Win IE's html contains an OBJECT tag; Netscape has javascript to
use Flash if it's installed, otherwise it uses an image map; browsers which
support neither get html which only uses an image map.

When using Mozilla it goes to the image only version of the page, presumably
because Mozilla doesn't list itself as netscape compat

Comment 1

[Eli Goldberg]

Shrirang is now QA owner for Plug-ins; QA assigning all of my Plug-ins bugs over
to him.

Comment 2

[av (gone)]

Redirecting to JavaScript people for investigation

Comment 3

[Mike McCabe]

Grandma - It's possible that the best fix is to teach the Macromedia site about
Netscape; a few things have changed about our behavior in order to concentrate
on Web standards conformance.

Also, the JavaScript module is concerned with problems with the JavaScript
engine itself, not browser-detection issues like this one.

We can't do much with the page as given; is there any chance you can dig up some
of your browser-detection code?  It'd be easiest if we could work with whoever
it is on your end that handles that.

Lastly, Eric Krock has posed some new code for browser version-sniffing that
knows how to accout for Mozilla; this code is at 

http://developer.netscape.com/docs/examples/javascript/browser_type.html

and there may be other answers to browser capabilities questions at Eric's FAQ
page at 

http://sites.netscape.net/ekrock/answers.html

Reassigning to Browser-General in case they're more familiar with user-agent and
browser capability detection issues.

Comment 4

[cbegle]

The problem with your flash detection script is this line:
> if (mimetype.enabledPlugin && (mimetype.suffixes.indexOf("swf") != -1))

I have Mozilla with Flash 4.0r26.  The problem is not the user-agent or the 
Navigator identification.  It's that the plugin returns "swl", instead of "swf", 
which your script expects.  

I'm resolving this invalid because the problem seems to be in your script and 
not in Mozilla.  Please don't be offended; feel free to reopen this if you have 
more information that puts this bug back in our court.

Comment 5

[leger]

Marking Verified.