Closed Bug 178483 Opened 22 years ago Closed 12 years ago

% percent sized plugin inside nested table does not render

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(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P2)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Plug-ins
Type:
defect

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(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: gustavo, Assigned: peterl-bugs)

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Confirm - Mozilla don´t work, IE works fine
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flash doesn't start, we get a blak page. I was told it works fine on mozilla 1.1 on windoze. I am using flash6 beta on mozilla 1.2beta, linux.
url, build ID, Flash version ?
I don't know what happened but this bug report form didn't ask me the usual stuff ?! It asked the url though. Anyway build ID 2002101612 - Mozilla 1.2b url - http://mindscape.planetaclix.pt flash version - Shockwave Flash 6.0 r60 as reported by "about plugins" (flash 6 beta)
plug-in: Shockwave Flash 6.0 r47 work with IE 5.00.2614.3500 in portuguese win98 mozilla build id 2002110508
I was told that with mozilla 1.1 it works fine on windows. Maybe a problem with newer builds ? Notice that loading directly http://mindscape.planetaclix.pt/website.swf flash works, altough the images don't pop up as they should.
confirm, don't load - Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 2 - linux - build id 2002052014
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Assignee: asa → beppe
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Browser-General → Plug-ins
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: asa → shrir
accessing the swf directly and it renders fine, trying to access via the web page the swf does not render. The web page content is this: <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="pt"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style01.css"> <title>Mindscape Produções</title> <script language="JavaScript" src="producoes.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor="#B6BBC0" scroll="no"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; position:absolute; left:0" bordercolor="#111111" width="101.5%" height="100%" id="AutoNumber1"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" id="website" ALIGN> <param NAME="movie" VALUE="website.swf"> <param NAME="loop" VALUE="false"> <param NAME="quality" VALUE="high"> <param NAME="devicefont" VALUE="true"> <param NAME="bgcolor" VALUE="#B6BBC0"> <embed src="website.swf" loop="false" quality="high" devicefont="true" bgcolor="#B6BBC0" WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" NAME="website" ALIGN TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"> </embed></object> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>
if you process this: <embed src="http://mindscape.planetaclix.pt/website.swf" loop="false" quality="high" devicefont="true" bgcolor="#B6BBC0" WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" NAME="website" ALIGN TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed> it renders just fine
Ok, I figured out the problem, if the plug-in is nested within a table and the plug-in is using percentage values for width and/or height then the plug-in fails to render: <table> <tr> <td> <embed src="http://mindscape.planetaclix.pt/website.swf" loop="false" quality="high" devicefont="true" bgcolor="#B6BBC0" WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" NAME="website" ALIGN TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed> </td> </tr> </table> Andrei: can we do something here?
Assignee: beppe → av
it looks like <table style="position:absolute; and percentage in <embed WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" cause layout calculates wrong metrics. reincarnation of bug 131065?
hmm: adding karnaze Chris: should this be resolved with your fix from bug 131065?
It's somewhat related to bug 131065, but based on comment #10 involves an absolutely positioned table, so it's different. If this becomes an important bug, feel free to reassign it to me.
May be releated to bug 176053 which talks about cases with text in front of a percentage sized plugin.
Do we reflow frames inside table cells? Can this be related?
no, this testcase does not have an absolutely positioned table, please see my entry in #9 reassigning
Assignee: av → karnaze
guys: I know the offending web designer, so I would like to know what to do next. Do you confirm that this works on mozilla 1.1 for windows as he told me ? Is there a quick fix that does not break other browsers ( mostly IE, as this does not work on Opera as well) that I can recomend him ? Kepp up the brilliant work. (Running mozilla 1.2b for days and not a single crash yet.) (sorry for being of topic but I don't like to see sites that won't run on moz let's make the guy fix it :) )
the quick fix is to remove the percentage values in the width and height for the embed.
I was just told that it in fact works on moz1.1/win32 The purpose of the table, according to the author is ensuring that the embeded flash really ocupies *all* the page width: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~l45348/screenshot.jpg For instance, wihtout the table, http://www.fys.ku.dk/~gustavo/mindscape/producoes.html short margins can be seen on both sides.
Priority: -- → P3
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Is this still a problem? This should be fixed now that we have that hack in the object frame...
It works fine with moz 1.1 but does not work with 1.2beta. Tested with both on linux. Gustavo
Um... I meant "is this still a problem in a current nightly build?" 1.2b is two releases old, about to become 3 releases old. Testing with it is pretty pointless.
-->peterl Confiming markup in comment #9 isn't working in a recent build but it doesn't show up in IE or Opera either and 4x gives a strange error message. Can someone attach a valid reduced HTML testcase here?
Assignee: karnaze → peterl
OS: Linux → All
Priority: P3 → P2
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: flash doesn't start → % percent sized plugin inside nested table does not render
I am experiencing the percentage width bug on Firefox 0.9.3 on Linux. Is anyone else having this problem? Thanks. -James
OK, from a web developer's point of view there's a simple solution to this one. I've tried it on my server with a Flash 9 swf with the width and height values at 100% and CSS to get rid of the default 10 pixel border and everything works fine in IE7 and Firefox 2.0: http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/#download You'll find full documentation and examples at this link. It's already pretty well known and well used by the majority of Flash developers. This is for version 1.5, there's a version 2.0 on Google code but this has the same problem as you're experiencing here.
QA Contact: shrir → plugins
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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