302052 - This should open a video. The video does not play.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Michael Graubart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050722 SeaMonkey/1.0a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050722 SeaMonkey/1.0a

This URL is from a link contained in an e-mail received from Oxfam. The link
should start a video. It does not. In SeaMonkey, in FireFox and in Internet
Explorer a page appears, containg 'To view video, click here' -- but clicking
does not achieve anything. In Safari, however, accessing the above URL
immediately starts the video.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Got to the given URL.
2. Click on 'To view video, click here'.

Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Expected Results:  
The video should start (as it does in Safari).

eMac G4, 1.25 GHz, OS X 10.3.9. Classic theme.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Yes, clicking the link does only reloading. The source contains the link to the
flash movie, which itself plays fine with Mozilla.

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" 

that won't work in mozilla...

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yeah, that page uses an IE-only ActiveX plugin.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Note that Safari is incorrect if it's ignoring the classid here.  The page is asking for a particular plugin binary, and using a different one (as Safari apparently does) is likely to cause problems in many cases.