247852 - mlb.com - Mozilla browser window does not give full screen option for RealPlayer or Windows Media Player.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Adam A. Castillo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608

Lol, I like the bad example.  But seriously, I love the browser.  I was getting
runtime errors on certain sites and getting frustrated with IE.  I switched to
Mozilla and it alleviated all my frustrations.  I have since recommended it to
alot of my peers.  

My issue is a minor issue but one that could potentially frustrate some select
new users.  When I go to MLB.com and try to watch their live webcasts I cannot
choose the "full screen" option in the browser window for the RealPlayer or
Windows Media Player plug-in.  The option is not even shown in the window.

In IE the "full screen" button shows next to the "preferences" button.  The
"full screen" button doesn't show at all when using Mozilla even though the
"preferences" button does show.  I hope one of you at Mozilla has a MLB account
to watch the games because this is a subscription option.

I searched for this prior and allowed popups from the site in the popup manager
but this did not alleviate the issue.

This is not a serious issue and I love your browser and use it for all other
sites except POGO.COM (POGO lists your browser as uncompatible and I believe its
because their pop-ups get blocked thus decreasing their ad revenue, lol).  I
just hope this does not dissuade others to go back to IE.  

Thanks,
Adam A. Castillo
Network Engineer
ITEQ, Inc.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  go to MLB.com and choose the tv icon next to a baseball game in action.
2.  a popup window will show containing the game in either a real-player or
windows media player.  (you will need an account but can buy a single game for
$1.99, this should allow you to continue to log out and reload this game until
its over or about 3 hours)
3.  you will not have an option to choose full screen for the view whichever you
 choose.  you can toggle between real player and windows media player without
logging out using the preferences button.

Actual Results:  
There is no button to choose the choose the option for full screen for whichever
player you are viewing.  

Expected Results:  
Should have shown the "full screen" button to choose to view either real player
or windows media player in full screen to view the baseball game.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of bug 247725?

Comment 2

[Jesiah S]

I belive I found a free way.  If you goto the video section. To the left of the
Video Central they have what looks like highlights of a player/game.  The SPAN
that holds the Full screen is sent to Mozilla with visibility:hidden.  The span
that they are hiding has onclick=playerframe.enableFullScreen().  playerframe is
the name of the IFRAME that holds the video and ad.  If I click it mozilla tells
me player is undefined.  I belive this is because IE allows you to access
OBJECTs by using there name/id w/o getting useing DOM or document.all.
This looks like TE to me.
LInux 2004081606 tried WMP(which I don't have) b/c RP is only for live games.
Will try windows.

Comment 3

[Jesiah S]

Well in windows I noticed there is a function called show_fullscreen_btn() that
changes the visibility.  It is run by the init() that is located in the iframe
playerframe.  But one of the requirements to run that function is that you are
running IE.
Work around right click and click full screen.
Moving to TE.
OT We like pogo too, bug 194663

Comment 4

[Felix Miata]

Conforming summary to TFM item 10 at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new

Comment 5

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Issue no longer exists. Closing.