188975 - ford.com.pl - Not all content visible/working on Flash site

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Polish, defect)

Description

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Compare this site in IE and Mozilla with a Flash plugin. With Mozilla you only
get the page footer.

I gaven't investigated the issue, but my first guess is that the site is
scripting the Flash plugin in a way that is not supported by us, hence trying
Evangelism at first.

Comment 1

[Nikolai Prokoschenko]

Quitting Evangelism due to lack of time...

Comment 2

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

This also should be in Europe: Central, NOT "East".

Comment 3

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

->Central, then

Comment 4

[Jacek Piskozub]

Accepting.

The site is using VisualBasic script to open the Flash animation for Internet
Explorer (VBscripts are supported (luckily) only by IE as they are inherently
unsafe) and a plugin for browsers with "Netscape" in the User Agent (UA) string.

This means that Mozilla (which does not have "Netscape" in its UA string will ot
be served the Flash animation in any form.

The script is so bad that even Netscape7 is not recognised as Netscape. I'm not
yet sure why. I suspect it is the plugin detection part.

===== Listing of http://www.ford.com.pl//firefly/cpr/scripts/incFlashCheck.js :

var flashState;
flashState = false;
if (navigator.appName == "Netscape" && navigator.plugins){
numPlugins = navigator.plugins.length;
if (numPlugins > 0){
for (i = 0; i < numPlugins; i++){
plugin = navigator.plugins[i];
if (plugin.description.indexOf("Flash 5") != -1){
flashState = true;
}
if (plugin.description.indexOf("Flash 4") != -1){
flashState = true;
}
if (plugin.description.indexOf("Flash 3") != -1){
flashState = true;
}
}
}
}
if (navigator.appName != "Netscape"){
y = navigator.appVersion
y = parseFloat(y.substring(0, y.indexOf('(')))
document.write('<SCRIP' + 'T LANGUAGE=VBScript\> \n');
document.write('on error resume next \n');
document.write('flashState =
(IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.3"))) \n');
document.write('flashState =
(IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.4"))) \n');
document.write('flashState =
(IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.5"))) \n');
document.write('</S' + 'CRIPT\> \n');
}

====== end of listing

Comment 5

[Jacek Piskozub]

Correction: 

Mozilla gives does give back "Netscape" as navigator.appName (I checked). So the
fault is probably in the plugin detection code.

Comment 6

[Jacek Piskozub]

It seems the method described above is never used. 

The navigator detection is supposed to be done here:
http://www.ford.com.pl/firefly/cpr/scripts/incBrowserCheck.js

var s_bN;
var s_bVM;
var s_bVM90;
var s_bL;
var s_bSH;
var s_bSW;
tempBrowserName = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
if (tempBrowserName.indexOf("msie") != -1){
s_bN = "MSIE";
}
else if ((tempBrowserName.indexOf('mozilla')!=-1) &&
(tempBrowserName.indexOf('spoofer')==-1) &&
(tempBrowserName.indexOf('compatible') == -1) &&
(tempBrowserName.indexOf('opera')==-1) && (tempBrowserName.indexOf('webtv')==-1)){
s_bN = "NAV";
}
else {
s_bN = "undefine";
}
if (s_bN == "NAV"){
s_bVM = parseInt(navigator.appVersion);
s_bVM90 = parseFloat(navigator.appVersion);
}
if (s_bN == "MSIE"){
tempBrowserVersion = navigator.appVersion;
x = tempBrowserVersion.indexOf("MSIE");
y = tempBrowserVersion.indexOf(";",x);
s_bVM = parseInt(tempBrowserVersion.substring(x+4,y));
s_bVM90 = parseFloat(tempBrowserVersion.substring(x+4,y));
}

while the Flash availability for Netscape is allegedly done here:
http://www.ford.com.pl/firefly/cpr/index.asp?NavID=home&PageID=&SiteVerID=21&LangID=44

// detection for Netscape
var useFlash;

var testFlash = navigator.mimeTypes &&
navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"] &&
navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"].enabledPlugin;


if (testFlash){
	useFlash =
parseInt(testFlash.description.substring(testFlash.description.indexOf(".")-1))
>= 6;
	if ( useFlash ) {  
	
	}	
	else {
		useFlash =
parseInt(testFlash.description.substring(testFlash.description.indexOf(".")-1))
>= 5;
			
		if (useFlash){
		
			useFlash =
parseInt(testFlash.description.substring(testFlash.description.indexOf("r")+1))
>= 41;

		}
	     }
	}

if ( useFlash ) {  
	start();
	}
else {  
	top.parent.center.location.replace("/firefly/spg/spg.asp?page=Flash_redir&SiteVerID=21&LangID=44&Firefly=true&purehtml=true");
}
//-->

I'll have to run the code with the Venkman debugger when I find time to see what
goes wrong.

Comment 7

[Jacek Piskozub]

I'll try do do this bug before the end of this month.

Comment 8

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 9

[Jacek Piskozub]

Giving this bug back to the community ;-)

Comment 10

[Patrick]

The dutch site http://www.ford.nl has the issues. I opened bug 226577 for that.

Comment 11

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

Site has been redesigned, the new version works in Gecko browsers.