211158 - Flash and CSS positioning incompatible

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Owen Rubel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

When using CSS's relative positioning with Flash, you can move a flash movie 
around on a page and overlap it if you want but in Mozilla, using positioning 
with Flash makes it not render (either that or render somewhere off the page).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.embed flash in a page
2.use a style sheet to position:relative it elsewhere (perhaps 5 pixels up to)
3.Use a mozilla browser with Flash to load page. Flash will not be shown.

Actual Results:  
Flash movie does not appear on page.

Expected Results:  
Should have repositioned the Flash movie prior to rendering the html.

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

the code of the page is a little mess, a clear test-case would be better to
understand any problem. Any way it seems to me that the html code is incorrectly
mixing the tags:
<span style='position:relative; top:16;'><object><embed></embed></span></object>

Anyway, I can see a flash menu at the top of the page, so you should try with a
current build like Mozilla 1.5RC2, the latest flash plugin and a simpler testcase.

Please report back any new finding.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this still an issue?

Comment 3

[Owen Rubel]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Is this still an issue?

Nope. Seems to work great in latest builds. Probably just the issue with the bad
code

Comment 4

[Owen Rubel]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Is this still an issue?

Nope. Seems to work great in latest builds. Probably just the issue with the bad
code

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

If we don't know what fixed it, it's worksforme.