386414 - 'play live' (launcing game) can only be done from IE.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Daniel Chesworth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070220 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070220 Firefox/2.0.0.2

It is only possible to play/launch the game from IE. (does not work in firefox)



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.visit http://sfront.ijji.com/
2.create an account/download game
3.attempt to launch with firefox, by clicking the 'play live' button (it wont)
Actual Results:  
It only launched with ie.

Expected Results:  
It should launch the game with firefox too. 

Game also only runs under windows,
(i was using windows when i tested it).

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

When I clicked that button, I got redirected to

http://sfront.ijji.com/common/activexInstall.nhn?msie=false&xpsp2=false&xpcom=true&windows=false&next=http%3A//sfront.ijji.com/

which seems to imply ActiveX as a requirement. That's IE- and Windows-only technology.

For most sites, I'd say that's a valid TE bug, but for online gaming, there may be a multitude of reasons why ActiveX is the only option, and I'm willing to give them a pass.

WONTFIX, unfortunately.