283481 - ifilm superbowl ads don't play in OS X Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[posita]

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

Firefox on OS X doesn't seem to want to play some embedded QuickTime movies.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://dyn.ifilm.com/superbowlads/
2. click "skip ad" in the upper right hand corner if the deoderant ad appears
3. try to play any of the superbowl ads (the first one for War of the Worlds is
fine)
Actual Results:  
A new window opened and the QuickTime logo appeared (indicating a movie was
being downloaded), but it never changed.

Expected Results:  
After a short time, I expected the QuickTime logo to go away and the movie to start.

This page works as advertised in Safari on OS X.

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

Smells like tech evangelism ?

Look at page source :

<script language="javascript">
			var qtStr = '<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
id="player" width="400" height="310"
CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab#version=6,0,2,0">';
			qtStr += '<PARAM NAME="controller" VALUE="TRUE">';
			qtStr += '<PARAM NAME="type" VALUE="video/quicktime">';
			qtStr += '<PARAM NAME="autoplay" VALUE="true">';
			qtStr += '<PARAM NAME="target" VALUE="myself">';
			qtStr += '<PARAM NAME="src"
VALUE="http://www.ifilm.com/QTPlaylist?ifilmId=2664203&bandwidth=200.mov">';
			qtStr += '<PARAM NAME="qtsrc"
VALUE="http://www.ifilm.com/media/getmetafile.smil?pinfo=fid:2664203|mt:mov|bw:200|refsite:|lid:|sid:1|cid:1|">';
qtStr += '<PARAM NAME="pluginspage"
VALUE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/indext.html">';
			qtStr += '<EMBED width="400" height="310" CONTROLLER="TRUE" TARGET="myself"
name="player" id="player" type="video/quicktime" BGCOLOR="#000000" BORDER="0"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/indext.html"
enablejavascript="true"
SRC="http://www.ifilm.com/QTPlaylist?ifilmId=2664203&bandwidth=200.mov"
qtsrc="http://www.ifilm.com/media/getmetafile.smil?pinfo=fid:2664203|mt:mov|bw:200|refsite:|lid:|sid:1|cid:1|"></EMBED></OBJECT>';
			document.write(qtStr);
		</script>

So ?

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

WFM using Fx 1.5 and Quicktime 7.