407943 - Media Viewer is only 1/2 vertical size it should be.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jim Beck]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 FireFox/2.0.0.11

This window is set to be 300 x 312.  It works fine on IE6, IE7 and Netscape. 
Thanks!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load page with URL above.
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Actual Results:  
Video window is displayed 1/2 actual size in vertical and full size in horizontal

Expected Results:  
Video window will be 300 x 312 pixels

Comment 1

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

This is using Windows Media. I assume you have Flip4Mac installed? Likewise, are you on Mac OS X 10.5?

If so, this is probably a dupe of bug 400070.

Comment 2

[Jim Beck]

I used a Mac to report the bug; however, the bug was noted on a PC running Windows XP.
Read Build Identifier above rather than user-agent.
400070 also reported a reduction in area to 25% which suggests that both dimensions are reduced.  

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Ah, sorry Jim.

I indeed see this on Windows using Firefox 2.0.0.11 as well as Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007121108 Minefield/3.0b2pre

Comment 4

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Attachment: Source of the site

This looks like browser sniffing to me. The code checks for Netscape, IE, and WebTV. It then determines what size to make that player depending on what browser it is. Since Firefox isn't one of the browsers it checks for and it doesn't seem to fall back well, it causes the browser to get a bad height.

Is this a popular site? If so, this should go to tech evangelism. If not, we should close this as INVALID since it's not our bug but is a bug in the site.

Comment 5

[Jim Beck]

The site belongs to me and you are correct it does "sniff" for browsers. It does not look for FireFox yet.  I agree the bug should be changed to INVALID.

Comment 6

[Jim Beck]

Our code will be modified within 48 hours so that Firefox will display correctly on Windows Machines.  Thanks for assistance!