265006 - Object Tags are not supported, embed tags which are no longer standard compatible are required.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Gabe Stocco]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

The embed tag which is no longer part of the html 4.01 specification is required
for firefox to display flash content as opposed to the object tag which is part
of the standard and supported by internet explorer.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the website.
2. The flash file will be missing but the website will verify as valid html.
3. Go to http://www.rabiner.net, the flash will appear but the addition of embed
tags makes the page not compatible with webstandards.

Actual Results:  
on /noembed.html, the flash movie does not appear.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should Support object tags.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

A minute of googling "flash object mozilla" seems to say that it is supported,
as long as you don't use the classid URI that refers to IE's ActiveX implementation.

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

(In reply to comment #1)
> A minute of googling "flash object mozilla" seems to say that it is supported,
> as long as you don't use the classid URI that refers to IE's ActiveX
implementation.

And this site uses classid to call ActiveX, and we don't support ActiveX, so the
object is ignored.