245510 - object or embed tags block message display

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040525 Firefox/0.8.0+ (mmoy-2004-05-05-Pentium3L)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040525 Firefox/0.8.0+ (mmoy-2004-05-05-Pentium3L)

object or embed tags that reference a http url block the display of additional
html data in the body.
The window will appear after a re-size of the window, however javascript that
it initiated by window.onload do not fire.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.create an html e-mail with any of my examples above
2.send it to youself
3.open the message

Actual Results:  
A blank page appears. If you resize the screen some of the additionall content
appears. If content is dependant on Javascript execution (window.onload), then
no content at all is rendered.

Expected Results:  
Preferably the HTTP services needed to download the content would be requested
of the default browser, and handed over to Tbird in a temp file.
Second best..Open the default browser and call the applicable plugin or helper
app. If the browser could be called minimized and not interrupt the message
pane, this would be desirable.
Third best..Ignore the tags and at least display the additional content.

This could be considered data loss, since many would not know to re-size
the screen to see the message. Also if the content is dependant on Javascript
execution, the only way to see the data is through view page source

Comment 1

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

Attachment: embed online source

Embed tag

Comment 2

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

Attachment: object tag

Comment 3

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

The embed and object tag methods shown in the above attachments
work in the suite 1.6 ,1.7

Comment 4

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

see related bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225441

Comment 5

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

I don't see this with current Tbird trunk version 1.0+ (20050611)
Marking worksforme