34827 - FLASH PLAYER - BETA 2

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 19125

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)

Description

[Troy Evans]

NETSCAPE TEAM,

In reviewing Preview release 1 of Netscape 6(mozilla) it seems there are
some major compatibility problems in ActiveX support and Plug-in support.
This problem causes serious functional problems with Macromedia Flash player
(version 4.0.7.0 - this ships by default with Netscape 6 PR1) NB - Flash Player 
4.0.27/28.0 are the latest versions.

The following features are rendered useless in both the NS Flash Plug-in and
the ActiveX Plug-in implementations:
1. LOAD MOVIE()
2. LOAD DATA()
3. Support for ActiveX & Plugin

It seems this is due to some internal incompatibility with allowing plug-ins
to access network resources via HTTP or HTTPS in the browser interface in
both ActiveX and NS Plug-ins on Mozilla.

We reported the error to the MOZILLA TEAM around October on Milestone 11 or
12 of Mozilla but it seemed to be only related to ActiveX support. This has
changed since.

As this is critical to Flash's success as a medium, I would hope that you
could reslove this - as this does reflect on Netscape too.

This would create a potentially large issue, as ever Flash site in existence
that utilizes LOAD MOVIE() would have to be modified and some of the major
benefits of using Flash (LOAD MOVIE & LOAD VARIABLE) would be rendered
useless on particular browsers.

Attached is a clear and repeatable example showing the error. It includes
examples of the following:

1. USE OF THE ACTIVEX FLASH PLAYER ON MOZILLA - ACTIVEX.HTML
2. USE OF THE NS FLASH PLAYER PLUG-IN ON MOZILLA - EMBED.HTML

3. As NS6 plays BOTH ActiveX and NS Plug-ins, both need to be fully operational
for complete support, otherwise all flash sites must change their HTML tags
due to the <OBJECT><EMBED></EMBED></OBJECT> nesting technique that ships
with FLASH and is recommended by all.

Also we have since changed our trademark and branding for the Flash Player, we 
no longer refer to the Plugin as "Shockwave Flash" or
to it as a plug-in.  The correct term is

"Macromedia Flash Player"

If there is anything that I can do let me know.  I would like to see these 
issues resolved by N 6 PR2

Regards,

Troy Evans
Flash Player Product Marketing Manager

Comment 1

[jlarsen]

This almost seems like something that should be resolved through corporate 
channels. But marking as NEW as it does atleast deserve some respect :)

Comment 2

[shrirang khanzode]

Known issue. Marking duplicate of 19125

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19125 ***

Comment 3

[shrirang khanzode]

verif dup