303888 - Changing div overflow inline style causes reframing of flash movie

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 90268

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I made a javascript function that went through each parent div of a particular
div, and saved it's computed overflow value, then changed it. I then wrote
another function that took those saved values and restored them. This was
necessary to fix an overflow issue on AOL's site where the test ad shows. What
ended up happening was the flash movie restarted when the values were changed a
second time.

Expected results: The flash movie doesn't restart.

Actual results: The flash movie restarted.

Comment 1

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Attachment: shockwave test file - ignore this

Hopefully this works. If so, this will be called from the HTML file I'm about
to attach.

Comment 2

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Comment on attachment 191960 [details]
shockwave test file - ignore this

Didn't work properly in concert with the HTML. I'm having trouble making a
testcase. I'll see what I can do.

Comment 3

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

will be fixed once (and if) plugin loading moves to content. don't know if a bug
is filed on that already...

Comment 4

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Attachment: here's another flash

Here's a flash file I just made. It doesn't loop, so you can easily see the
reframing.

Comment 5

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Attachment: testcase #1

Watch the flash end, and if you click "contract", it'll start over again. Same
with "expand".

Comment 6

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

If anyone knows a workaround for this, it would be very helpful. Currently, our
company's scripts aren't able to save the overflow properties, and therefore
when our ads change them, we could mess up the portal site our ads are within.
It's likely not going to happen because portals don't generally use the
overflow:hidden property because of problems with IE, but it's possible.

Comment 7

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

found the real bug (bug 90268)

Comment 8

[Aleksei Perepelkin [:chaos]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007110515 Minefield/3.0a9pre

Flash restarting.