310215 - The BBC Radio Player controls (except for Pause) do not appear

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Michael Graubart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050924 SeaMonkey/1.1a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050924 SeaMonkey/1.1a

The BBC's Radio Player, which uses the Real Player software on one's computer,
has the usual controls (though on a Mac, rewind is nonexistent). As a result of
this bug, which is a regression, only the pause control appears. I shall attach
screen shots: 1. using SeaMonkey 2005092409, 2. using Safari.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the above website.
2. Click on 'Listen to the latest programme'.


Actual Results:  
The broadcast starts playing, but only the Pause control is visible.

Expected Results:  
All the audio controls (except Rewind) should be visible and usable.

eMac G4, OS X 10.3.9, Classic theme.

Comment 1

[Michael Graubart]

Attachment: Screenshot using SeaMonkey - pdf file

Comment 2

[Michael Graubart]

Attachment: Screenshot using Safari

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

I see this on Windows too, and also the pause button doesn't actually pause the
playback.

Comment 4

[zug_treno]

Maybe related to bug 257779 and Firefox bug 308259?

Comment 5

[Michael Graubart]

On my Mac (OS X 10.3.9), the pause button does halt the broadcast (though it is
the only button visible).

I should have said in the first place that this bug is a regression. It appeared
some time after SeaMonkey build 20050915 (in which build the Radio Player still
shows all its buttons).

Comment 6

[Michael Graubart]

I trust I shall not annoy anyone if I add to this bug report the remark that
many thousands of people use the BBC 'Listen again' facility every day, so it is
important to try to fix this bug soon.

Comment 7

[Michael Graubart]

A final piece of information: I have narrowed down the point at which this
regression occurred: between Build 2005092110 (in which the Radio Player's
controls are all visible) and Build 2005092210 (in which only the pause button
is visible).

I hope this will facilitate identifying and fixing the problem. 

Comment 8

[Michael Graubart]

Build 2005101309: some lovely person has fixed this bug, so I can use SeaMonkey
again for BBC music broadcasts! Thank you.