301083 - Site doesnt load properly : graph doesnt generate with Firefox but it does with IE

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[bbpimisj05]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5

This site uses fusion charts a Macromedia flash system to generate charts on the
fly. the charts generate with IE, but not with Firefox. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.USe the follwoing parameters to test: Start date: 2004/01/01,  end date
2005/01/01, item: 4116 
2.Submit
3.

Actual Results:  
Error loading data, graph doesnt render properly

Expected Results:  
Use same paramets on IE and you will see a graph load

A continued problem will mean we have to point our clients to use IE
specifically instead of Firefox.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Not a security bug, clearing flag.

The graph is a flash thing. IE uses the ActiveX version of Flash, Firefox uses
the plugin version. It's possible, though unlikely, that there's a
bug/difference in those two versions of flash, which would be a Macromedia problem.

Or it could be your bug since you're not passing any data to the plugin form of
the control:

IE version:
   <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
      <param name="movie"
value="Media/FC_2_3_Candlestick.swf?chartWidth=800&amp;chartHeight=500">
      <param name=quality value=high>
      <param name="FlashVars"
value="&dataURL=Data.jsp%3FAverage%3Dnull%26Type%3D0%26Feed%3D4116%26StartDate%3D2004%2F01%2F01%26EndDate%3D2005%2F01%2F01">

Plugin (Mozilla/Netscape/Opera/Safari) version:
   <embed src="Media/FC_2_3_Candlestick.swf" width="800" height="500"
      quality=high type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
      flashvars="&dataURL="></embed>

Note in the second case "flashvars" is missing all the nice parameter values you
pass to the IE version.

http://developer-test.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_the_Right_Markup_to_Invoke_Plugins

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

And if flash arguments are case-sensitive you've also got FlashVars for IE and
flashvars for Firefox.