282823 - Javascript document.open("model/vrml") displays the source text instead of starting the plugin

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Jim]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When generating a new document using the javascript DOM function
document.open("model/vrml"), the browser uses a text mime type and displays the
text being written to the document instead of loading the vrml plugin and
displaying the scene.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.in a javascript script tag call the function document.open("model/vrml");
2.write something to the document using document.write("something");
3.optionally close the document using document.close();

Actual Results:  
The word something appears on the webpage

Expected Results:  
The VRML plugin should have started
(probably with an error since "something" isn't valid VRML)

Using the Cortona VRML plugin from parallelgraphics.com

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Plugin documents are a different type of object from HTML documents in Mozilla
(unlike Netscape 4).  document.open() can't change the type of object "document"
is.  So this isn't really going to work in Mozilla...

See bug 73409 for more information.