227229 - Percentage bug found in object attribute height=100% when used with XHTML DOCTYPE

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 208433

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel Hill]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

 The blank Flash object issue specifically appears in the object tag when a
percent is used in the height= attribute under an XHTML declaration. A percent
can be used in the width= but not in the height=. Also the bug seems to be 
closely tied the eclamation character in the DOCTYPE. For instance if you 
delete the eclamation before the DOCTYPE (<DOCTYPE html PUBLIC) then suddenly 
the 100% in the height attribute will work.
You can also add an additional eclamation (<!DOCTYPE! html PUBLIC) and
the height="100%" will suddenly work and show the Flash object.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a flash object
2. Enter 100% for the height attribute in the object tag
3. 
Actual Results:  
Browser will display a blank object until percent is taken out of height=
when used in combination with XHTML complaint declaration.


Expected Results:  
For the Firebird browser to allow stretching and resizing of the Flash object
when using the object tag with width="100%" and height="100%" in an XHTML
compliant page.

Comment 1

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 208433 ***

Comment 2

[Daniel Hill]

For the moment, in this new landscape of XHTML, the suggestion
of using CSS is currently the best way to fix the 100% percent
issue in the object height attribute when a full Flash web site
is desired.

<style type="text/css">
html, body { margin: 0; padding: 0; height: 100%; }
</style>

Also review the RazorX comments for the 100% Flash issue
on alistapart.com:

http://www.alistapart.com/discuss/flashsatay/25/

http://www.alistapart.com/discuss/flashsatay/26/

http://www.alistapart.com/discuss/flashsatay/27/