284785 - Mozilla Testcase points to site which requires IE

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Emory Alexander]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Firefox/1.0.1

On your test cast page, if I click on this link 
- MSNBC website videos.

I get a message saying I need to be running IE.  

Uhhhh Houston we seem to have a problem here.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to the Mozilla Test Case page 
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/browser/front-end/testcases/plugins/mediaplayertest.html
2.click on the last link on that page MSNBC website videos. 
3.click on any of the options in the "Free Video" section which is in the lower
right corner of the page

Actual Results:  
A page comes up telling me I need to 
1) download and install IE
2) download and install MS Windows Media Player
3) then start the MSN video

Expected Results:  
Since I'm on YOUR webpage for testing Windows Media Player I'm assuming I should
have been able to view the videos on that website.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Site is linked via
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/plugins/-->http://www.mozilla.org/quality/browser/front-end/testcases/plugins/-->(see
URL field)

Comment 2

[David Boswell]

This content has recently been archived.  If this needs to be migrated back to
a production site, I'd recommend posting it on QMO or MDC.  Closing as wontfix.