264474 - The flash animation is so small that noone can read the text or see images

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 208433

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Brian Moore]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

The interactive flash animation at this site should take up most of the browser
window. It randers Properly in Konqueror webbrowser bu is too small in Firefox
and Mozilla 1.7.2. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open the links with firefox or mozilla or konqueror
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Konqueror renders Properly FFOX and Moz. does not

Expected Results:  
rendered the flash almost full browser width and height

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

This seems to be tech evangelism? Adding height 100% to 
html, body and p fixes the height issue

Comment 2

[jan klopper]

the problem exists because the flash animation needs to be 95% percent of the
width, and 95% of the height of the parent element.

The parent element is a P tag, this tags spans the entire width of the screen,
and not the entire height.
The size of the flash depends on the width of the parent object, meaning the P
should just be made larger instead of being just a containing object width no
height and width defined.

I like the way firefox does this, altough most other browers might look at the
size of the parent object in a different order? and thus giving a different result.

Comment 3

[Dan Kohn]

This problem is also reproducible on
http://www.pwsresearch.org/fpwr/default.html.  Do we really want to demand that
all flash sites add in height tags?  The default here of tiny flash objects
seems to be backwards, versus just defaulting to the full width the way IE does.

Comment 4

[Christopher Taylor]

I do not get the problem in the sites that the first bug filer listed.  However,
I do expereince the problem at http://www.plastelina.net/games/

This is on Firefox 1.0.2 on Windows XP, W98SE and 2000.

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 297630 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

We need a new valid teastcase because the original one is 404, the URl from
comment#4 is XHTMl doctype and that's 208433

Comment 7

[Dan Kohn]

I can confirm the bug still exists with Firefox 1.0.4 at
http://www.pwsresearch.org/default.html

Comment 8

[José Jeria]

With that url as a testcase this is a duplicate. Removing the doctype "fixes"
the issue. 

But basically, add 
html, body { height:100%; }

and it will work

I am not sure this is actually a bug, but for now, duping

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