Closed Bug 208024 Opened 22 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Mozilla does not support javabean scheme for OBJECT CLASSID

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Arabic, defect)

Product:
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
Component:
Arabic
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: arunappa, Assigned: yuanyi21)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425

Following HTML code creates a Java TextArea correctly in Netscape 4.78
browser but does not display anything or give any error message
in Java console in both Mozilla 1.3.1 and Netscape 7 browser:

<html>
<body>

<center>
AWT Text Area: <BR>
              <OBJECT ID="listenBox1"
                              CLASSID="javabean:java.awt.TextArea"
                              WIDTH="225" HEIGHT="82">
                      <PARAM NAME="Rows" VALUE="4">
                      <PARAM NAME="Columns" VALUE="24">
              </OBJECT><BR>
</center>
</body>

</html>




When this html page is rendered the TextArea is absent.

Is there a woraround for this?


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Assignee: general → peterlubczynski
Component: Browser-General → Plug-ins
QA Contact: general → bmartin
-->oji
Assignee: peterlubczynski → joshua.xia
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Plug-ins → OJI
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: bmartin → dsirnapalli
You should write code like that:

<html>
<body>
<center>
AWT Text Area: <BR>
              <OBJECT ID="listenBox1" codetype="application/java"
                              classid="java:java.applet.Applet"
                              WIDTH="225" HEIGHT="82">
                      <!--<PARAM NAME="Rows" VALUE="4">
                      <PARAM NAME="Columns" VALUE="24"> !-->
              </OBJECT><BR>
</center>
</body>
</html>

The component that attach on html must be Applet-based, you can write your own
Applet by extend java.applet.Applet.

If you set CLASSID="java:java.awt.TextArea", the following exception will happen:
java.lang.ClassCastException
	at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(Unknown Source)
	at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(Unknown Source)
	at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(Unknown Source)
	at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

This should not be a bug, I will close it

->invalid
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
The Object Tag can be used to embed a lightweight JavaBean component in the 
HTML. The classid attribute specifies the name of the class which defines the
component. The param tags are used to specify the attributes of the bean 
through name-value attributes. 

This feature worked in Netscape 478. Why is it not working in the latest
mozilla and Netscape 7?
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
see: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html#edef-OBJECT

Netscape 7.0 and the latest mozilla is not simple update from Netscape 4.7x

it may works on netscape 4.x, 
but it is not common currently,
and its syntax is not w3c standarded.

anyway, it is an backward compatiablity problem
mozilla doesnot care much about this.
so it will be marked as tech evanlism.
change its category as Tech Evangelism.
Component: OJI → Arabic
Product: Browser → Tech Evangelism
Version: Trunk → unspecified
->kyle
Assignee: joshua.xia → kyle.yuan
Status: REOPENED → NEW
First; quicktime has the same problem...

I'd like to quote Braden;

"Nope. CLASSID is used to specify a particular implementation. If a user agent
doesn't support the specified implementation, it should not render the OBJECT."

What to think of the following code to implement quicktime? Valid (X)HTML, IE
accepts it, but Mozilla nogo:

<object classid="test.mov" data="test.mov" type="video/quicktime"
style="width:380px; height:285px;">		
	 <p>Error Text or alternative object, or alternative image...</p>
</object>

The w3 site states about the classid attribute:

"This attribute may be used to specify the location of an object's
implementation via a URI. It may be used together with, or as an alternative to
the data attribute, depending on the type of object involved."

note the part 'alternative to the data attribute'.

Please reconsider this.
(or there should be better arguments ;) )

sorry, for the previous comment, i used the wrong bug-comments-field for posting
my comment (though i think both bugs are related... bugnr: 46569 )
Keywords: 4xp
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: Mozilla does not display javabean Object ClassID → Mozilla does not support javabean scheme for OBJECT CLASSID
no web site, -> invalid
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago → 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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