331672 - embed swf is not usable from JS if assigned, an interval latency is required

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Andrea Giammarchi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

I think that an embed element should be usable from JavaScript as is for IE and Opera.
In FireFox 1.5 It's not usable after the element is correctly assigned, It requires an intervall to work correctly but script will be asyncronous.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. assign embed element by name: var swf = document["embedname"];
2. swf.TCallLabel("_root", "labelname"); // label is not called, any error on console
3. function async(){swf.TCallLabel("_root", "labelname");}; setTimeout(async, 0); // label is called

Actual Results:  
anything, but if I try to reproduce the object and its embed element with an innerHTML, an exception occurred if I don't use the interval with setTimeout or with setIntervall. If I reproduce HTML manually, console doesn't tell me anything.

Expected Results:  
Any error but should work correctly.

My Installed Extension
DOM Inspector 1.8.0.1
HTML Validator 0.7.7
Web Developer 1.0.1
FireBug 0.2.2

Windows XP Professional SP2 full updated
Flash Player 8.5

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Plugin data is loaded asynchronously, this is probably by design/spec.