298544 - shockwave file ignored when dragged to Camino applicatiion

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Vicki Brown]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050620 Camino/0.9a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050620 Camino/0.9a1

Try the file at
   http://media.doozycards.com/images/pic_2004-01-03_211855.swf

This movie plays when viewd via the web with Camino. However, if I download the
.swf file to your local disk, then try to drag it to Camino, Camino ignores it.
 Can't drag to the application icon; can't drag to the browser window.

I can drag the file to Safari and it plays.

Posted to Camino users list
At 20:29 +0200 06/22/2005, Ludovic Hirlimann wrote:
>File association is not correct. This looks like a bug, mind opening one?



Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
movie is ignored when dragged but works in Safari

Expected Results:  
movie should play when dragged

Comment 1

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

This works perfect for me. I can drag it in an open browser window or in the
location bar (and the hit enter... auto load is another bug) and it plays fine.

No, you can't drag it on the application icon, but is that a bad thing?

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

When I was working with the Fx folks to improve their Info.plist, the logic they
used for not also adding .swf was that you can't guarantee that all people will
have the right plugins installed, so you shouldn't enable drag-and-drop of
plugin-handled filetypes on the app icon.  I think this is sound reasoning.  

Note that you can override this (in any app) by holding down cmd and opt while
dragging the file, or, as Samuel mentioned, to the browser window or other parts
of the UI that accept drag-and-drop (and by default already "download" file
types Camino can't render).

My feeling is that this is probably WONTFIX.

Comment 3

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

well, dragging to a browser widnow doesn't work for vicki, so something is weird
here. i wonder if it's a panther v. tiger thing. perhaps?

Comment 4

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Isn't Samuel on 10.4.x?  I'm on 10.3.9.  (Sorry, I missed the "can't drag to
browser window" in Vicki's report)

Comment 5

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

Yes, I'm on 10.4, so that covers two OSes. Unless she's on 10.2, we shouldn't be
having a problem. I *am* using the nightly from 6/17, however. So this could be
a regression.

Comment 6

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

WFM on 0.9a1 build (20040602008) on Tiger. i could drag into the browser window
and it started playing.

Comment 7

[Jasper]

I belevie that you just can't drag a plugin object into a window that already
has plgin content opened. For the rest everything works.

Comment 8

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

(In reply to comment #7)
> I belevie that you just can't drag a plugin object into a window that already
> has plgin content opened. For the rest everything works.

This seems to be the case (if the window is exclusively plugin
content--otherwise, it seems to be another "which region will accept a drag?"
issue).

Vicki, were you trying to drag the file into a window that already contained
plugin content?  If you open a fresh window and drag into that, does it work then?

Comment 9

[Jasper]

Marking WONTFIX, reopen if needed.