276613 - virtuale.org - windows media player doesn't show

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[francesco.errante]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Firefox/1.0

This plain html page just doesn't show properly. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. just log onto the said URL first by using IE 
2. now logon again by using Firefox
3.

Actual Results:  
Page just doesn't show properly. 

Expected Results:  
It should show as in the IE window

Comment 1

[Sterling Bates]

This is definitely not a javascript console bug.  The only differences between
the two browsers that I can see are:

1. The lack of a "set homepage" link, which is caused by an IE-specific HTML
directive.

2. The lack of Windows Media Player showing in the top right.  Not sure if the
reporter is referring to that specifically.

I'm using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6)
Gecko/20041221 Firefox/1.0+.

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

more details on what in that page you think is not displayed properly?

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
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Comment 4

[francesco.errante]

http://www.ritrovo.virtuale.org/ , this page still doesn't show properly. 

No Windows Media Player controls showing in the top right and no sound 
reproduction whatsoever. It doesn't even asks for a plugin to be downloaded in 
order to play the background sound.

Comment 5

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

I don't know much about plugins, but that page has this:

<object classid="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
type="application/x-oleobject" width="200" height="23" vspace="0" border="0"
standby="Loading Microsoft® Windows® Media Player components..." id="wmplayer">

..and no fallback content. I believe the above tag refers to IE-specific ActiveX
object, and page's authors must change the page if the want it to be
Firefox-compatible.

I guess I'll move this to evangelism. Contact page here:
http://www.spinchat.com/help?id=5000

Comment 6

[francesco.errante]

Nickolay Ponomarev  ([e-mail]) wrote: "I believe the above tag 
refers to IE-specific ActiveX object, and page's authors must change the page 
if the want it to be Firefox-compatible."

I think you firefox's people are incurring in the same microsoft's arrogance 
driven mistake. As I see it, you have stopped developing a lighter and stable 
browser then IE and are know concentrating in creating another "monopoly". 

I think firefox has his days counted if only seeks to imposing its own 
standards and doen't not adapt to existing ones.

Francesco Errante

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

(In reply to comment #6)

The object tag with classid that Nickolay identified is Microsoft only ActiveX
means to invoke an ActiveX control. It is their arrogance involved.

Comment 8

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Comment 5 is still occurring almost three years later, but I'm not convinced this site is worth evangelising. Bob, feel free to change the resolution if you wish, but I'm going to WONTFIX for now.