172046 - Quicktime content embedded according to xhtml 1.0 strict doesn't work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 153288

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[db]

On the above URL theee is a page with a quicktime movie embedded with <object>.
The page validates as xhtml 1.0 strict and the quicktime content works in other
browsers (most notably, Omniweb and WinIE) but Mozilla (neither Mac or Win)
diplays anything at all. It does not even reserve space for the object.

For sure, I have included the WinIE-specific ActiveX reference, but Mozilla
should ignore this string and look at the MIME-type, shouldn't it?

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The ActiveX reference is in fact the problem.  Having that there means "Nothing
but the ActiveX control which has this classid can render this content".  See
discussion in bug 108557 starting at bug 108557 comment 60 or so.

(and as a note, the page is text/html, so we treat is as HTML, not XHTML...)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 153288 ***

Comment 2

[Niklas Dougherty]

Use nesting, i.e. first use the ActiveX version, then a generic one as a
fallback (and then an image with its own text fallback):

<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" height="176" width="180">
	<param name="src" value="movie.mov" />
	<param name="type" value="video/quicktime" />
	<object data="movie.mov" type="video/quicktime" height="176" width="180">
		<img src="movie.jpg" alt="movie" height="160" width="180" />
	</object>
</object>

Comment 3

[Niklas Dougherty]

Adding some more info for future reference...

David, we've been through this before. Look at http://homepage.mac.com/nikd/qt/
and see the plain examples there. The reason the classid version comes first is
because otherwise the stupendous Internet Exploiter 5.x for the Mac will freak.

Comment 4

[shrirang khanzode]

mass duplicate verifications . For filtering purposes, pls use keywd
"massdupverification"