232971 - embedded winforms control using <OBJECT> tag not supported

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement)

Description

[Alistair Young]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: All versions

Embedding .NET Framework Windows Forms controls in web pages using the <OBJECT> 
tag, as documented in the .NET framework documentation and HTML 4.0, fails to 
work (not implemented?), although alternate text is displayed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a Windows Forms control and embed it in a web page using the <OBJECT> 
tag. (See above specified URL for an example of this.)
2. Browse to that page.

Actual Results:  
Alternate text is displayed (contents of object tag).

Expected Results:  
The windows forms control specified in the <OBJECT> tag should have been 
rendered in the page.

Comment 1

[Malcolm Rowe]

The relavent section from the URL is:

<object id="helloWeb" classid="http:WebControls.dll#WebControls.HelloWeb">
blah
</object>

We don't support ActiveX components by default, so this is probably INVALID. 
(though shouldn't that be classid="clsid:..." anyway?)

Comment 2

[Alistair Young]

(In reply to comment #1)
> The relavent section from the URL is:
> <object id="helloWeb" classid="http:WebControls.dll#WebControls.HelloWeb">
> blah
> </object>
> We don't support ActiveX components by default, so this is probably INVALID. 
> (though shouldn't that be classid="clsid:..." anyway?)

But .NET <> ActiveX, so I'd call it a separate feature request - especially 
as .NET components don't have most of the unpleasantnesses that ActiveX ones 
do. And are (potentially) cross-platform, what with Mono.

(For ActiveX, yes. .NET components cite the assembly the component's in, 
followed by its fully-qualified class name.)

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 5

[Alistair Young]

Reopened, because this unsupport is still preventing Mozilla from being considered for a number of intranet deployments I'm familiar with.

Comment 6

[Philip Chee]

Moving to Core->Plugins.
Alistair, when you go to "about:plugins" do you see any plugins for your .NET form controls? I suspect that Microsoft never wrote a "netscape" style plugin for mozilla based browsers. If you don't see it in about:plugins, then this bug is INVALID and you should instead complain to Microsoft.

Comment 7

[aravindm]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Please try if you can reproduce with the latest nightly build ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 8

[Kevin Brosnan]

Closing this issue. I suspect Microsoft's .net plugin now does what the bug requester wanted.