282810 - flash with javascript Still non-existent

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 203861

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I looked over the past posts about flash and javascript in Firefox.  The only
post I found that is on target with this prob has been marked as 'solved'.  But
it's not solved. 

Flash has a 'getURL()'  method that is frequently used to make function calls to
javascript in the same document as the flash movie.
ie and  safari have no problem with it.  But firefox won't even do a 
javacript:alert("hello world");

os:  mac osx 10.3.8


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a new html doc


2. put this inside a <script> tag:

          function hello(s){
             alert(s);
          }


3.  put this into your flash actionscript window:
         getURL("javascript:hello('mommy likes me')");

//---   works on every testing browser here.
Actual Results:  
nothing.

Expected Results:  
opened a javascript alert window that says "mommy likes me" 

this problem holds true for ALL javascript function calls from with the flash
player (tested using version 6  and version 7.2  of the flash player).

a beginning flash user wouldn't think this is a problem. But most of the sites
created by ad agencies rely on    Flash/DHTML  communication for gathering ad
impression statistics, and moreso for simple navigation and document writing.

Comment 1

[Frankie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 203861 ***