250830 - part of Macromedia Flash screen cut-off - does not happen in IE

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 278684

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Scott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

flash movie does not play correctly (right side of movie is cut-off)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
play entire (right side of picture is cut-off) flash movie in box

Comment 1

[Ignaz Forster]

Same here for me with Mozilla 1.7. Examples for such cut of sites are
http://www.doom3.com (when you open up the popup window) or
http://www.nicht-lustig.de (the main site with the Flash animation on the top).
This happens with Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25 and Mozilla 1.7. As far as I remember
it didn't happen to me using Mozilla 1.4 and Flash 6.x.
Opera 7.51 with the same plugin doesn'nt have the problem.

As my operating system is Linux, I'd suggest changing OS to All and Product to
Browser (?), as it seems to be a wider spread problem.

Comment 2

[Ignaz Forster]

Same here for me with Mozilla 1.7. Examples for such cut of sites are
http://www.doom3.com (when you open up the popup window) or
http://www.nicht-lustig.de (the main site with the Flash animation on the top).
This happens with Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25 and Mozilla 1.7. As far as I remember
it didn't happen to me using Mozilla 1.4 and Flash 6.x.
Opera 7.51 with the same plugin doesn'nt have the problem.

As my operating system is Linux, I'd suggest changing OS to All and Product to
Browser (?), as it seems to be a wider spread problem.

Comment 3

[Markus Lindström]

The page uses the Microsoft proprietary <embed> tag to show the Flash movie. The
screen crop is actually due to the fact that the movie is shown within a fixed
size <iframe> (http://69.44.60.22/gwb/index.html) on the page, and the use of
the <embed> tag coupled with lots of HTML errors probably cause the Flash movie
to show at the wrong size.

Suggesting this bug gets moved to Tech Evangelism.

Comment 4

[Dan]

I can confirm the behavior exactly on mozilla, firefox and epiphany browsers.  I
would also respectfully suggest that saying it is the site's fault is not good
enough.  If konqueror and opera do it right, then mozilla should do it too. 
Yes, I understand all about the standards.  However this is what quirks mode is for.

Comment 5

[Angel de la Cruz]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I can confirm the behavior exactly on mozilla, firefox and epiphany browsers.  I
> would also respectfully suggest that saying it is the site's fault is not good
> enough.  If konqueror and opera do it right, then mozilla should do it too. 
> Yes, I understand all about the standards.  However this is what quirks mode
is for.
> 
i can also confirm the problem in firefox. i am running gentoo linux, firefox
1.02, flash 7.0.25. last week i was able to view the hitchhikers guide website
(http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/) with no problem at all. today, i get the
split screen problem reported here.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Marcin Garski]

Probably same as bug #278684

Comment 8

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 278684 ***