196166 - cardpayservices.com - mozilla appears to ignore size controls on flash animation (height=100%)

Status: CLOSED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Chris Sharman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

This is the offending code snippet: produces a narrow band at the top of the
page in ie, opera, nn4, nn7.02, but over a pageful in moz 1.2.1, nn6.2.
If there's a coding workaround I'd appreciate it.
You can't see the bug at the url without posting financial info unfortunately,
sorry.

<table width="100%" border="0" height="22%" cellpadding="0">
<tr>

<td style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: black">
<div align="center">
<h5 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: black">
<object id="ShockwaveFlash1"
codeBase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.ca
b#version=4,0,2,0" height="80" width="100%" align="middle"
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000">
<param NAME="_cx" VALUE="15875">
<param NAME="_cy" VALUE="2117">
<param NAME="Movie" VALUE="media/cards%20for%20under%20banner.swf">
<param NAME="Src" VALUE="media/cards%20for%20under%20banner.swf">
<param NAME="WMode" VALUE="Window">

<param NAME="Play" VALUE="0">
<param NAME="Loop" VALUE="-1">
<param NAME="Quality" VALUE="High">
<param NAME="SAlign" VALUE="">
<param NAME="Menu" VALUE="-1">
<param NAME="Base" VALUE="">
<param NAME="Scale" VALUE="ExactFit">
<param NAME="DeviceFont" VALUE="0">
<param NAME="EmbedMovie" VALUE="0">

<param NAME="BGColor" VALUE="">
<param NAME="SWRemote" VALUE="">
<param NAME="Stacking" VALUE="below">
<embed src="media/cards%20for%20under%20banner.swf" quality="high"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_
Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"
height="100%" scale="exactfit" align="center" play="false">
</embed>
</object>
</h5>
</div>
</td>

</tr>
</table>


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. I'm not allowed to publish the reproducer, sorry. I could email it privately
if necessary.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
mozilla displays just over a page depth of flash banner, followed by the actual
html page, followed by another similar banner.

Expected Results:  
A narrow banner & the actual page visible below it.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

<object id="ShockwaveFlash1"
codeBase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.ca
b#version=4,0,2,0" height="80" width="100%" align="middle"
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000">

This gets ignored because "classid='clsid:foo'" means "Must use an ActiveX
control" and Mozilla does not support ActiveX plugins.  So we fall back to the
content inside the <object>, which is:

<embed src="media/cards%20for%20under%20banner.swf" quality="high"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_
Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"
height="100%" scale="exactfit" align="center" play="false">

Note the height="100%".

Comment 2

[Paul Wyskoczka]

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Comment 3

[Chris Sharman]

Many thanks - your explanation accepted by our payment provider's support &
passed to their development.
Sorry for the error - I'm afraid I'm out of my depth with flash.

Comment 4

[Chris Sharman]

'corrected' to tech. evang. issue.
www.cardpayservices.com page now fixed - thanks

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Chris, please do not mark bugs closed; that should be done by drivers only.

Comment 6

[Felix Miata]

Conforming summary to TFM item 10 at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new