379849 - Embed tag ignored in Mailnews

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060804 Firefox/1.5.0.6 (mahowi)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070502 SeaMonkey/1.1.2

Ant instance of the Embed tag fails to call the applicable plugin

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Allow remote content for purposes of this test
2.Compose mail with the following html content:
<embed src="http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/4354/911nosmzc5.swf"
 height="60" width="60">
3.View the results by sending to yourself or File | Send later. 
Actual Results:  
The embed tag is ignored.

Expected Results:  
Instantiate the swf player plugin. (SWF audio only with play button.)

The Embed tag is ignored for all content types that I have tried.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

Worksforme with a current 1.1 branch build on linux.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

plugins are disabled by default in mailnews - you have to enable them with a pref (this is true for Thunderbird, and I believe also for Seamonkey mailnews)

Comment 3

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> plugins are disabled by default in mailnews - you have to enable them with a
> pref (this is true for Thunderbird, and I believe also for Seamonkey mailnews)
> 
Right David, I am very familiar with how plugins work in TB as well as Seamonkey.
I use them in TB trunk (successfully) as well as Seamonkey. But something has happened in Seamonkey to make this difficult.
Somewhere between:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060910 SeaMonkey/1.0.5
And:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20061223 SeaMonkey/1.1
Any use of the embed tag in Mailnews, in inbox, local folders, or newsgroups
simply ignores the tag. At least for remote content.
And..Yes I know about the prefmailnews.message_display.disable_remote_image

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

yes, probably it's due to some SeaMonkey specific content permissions code...I'll confirm this to get it on the SM radar.

Comment 5

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

This appears to be a windows only problem.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070510 SeaMonkey/1.0.9 works in winxp for me with the same plugins and settings.

Comment 6

[Robert Kaiser]

Not going to block a 1.1.x release for something that hasn't changed compared to previous 1.1.x release and is no security or stability issue.

If someone comes up with a patch that doesn't break security and works well, we can probably take it for a further release, but we won't hold off any release for this.

Comment 7

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Joe,
Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 ?

Can you attach a testcase email to this bug ?

Comment 8

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

Sorry for the delayed response.
Yes, the problem is still there using:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9
It appears to be windows only, from some questioning around newsgroups that use the embed tag.
Testcases require a plugin that plays mov files (Quicktime)
For the iframe testcase quicktime is called, and plays the file.
For the embed case nothing happens at all.

Both testcases work fine in current Thunderbird trunk.

Comment 9

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

Attachment: remote src with embed

Comment 10

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

Attachment: test with embed

Comment 11

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

Sorry, I misnamed them, but one is with embed, and one is with Iframe.