Closed
Bug 463099
Opened 17 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
Firefox - object background not transparent for audio/mpeg controller, shows white
Categories
(Firefox :: General, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: steven_rowat, Unassigned)
Details
(Whiteboard: [closeme 2013-07-25][FF3.x])
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3
The core problem is that different OSs, using different audio controllers (Totem, Quicktime, WMedia) require different heights for their controller. Thus there will be unused space for the thin ones - like quicktime - if the tall ones - like WindowsMedia - are going to show fully. This leaves an ungly white or black box, either around or above the thinner controller, UNLESS THE BACKGROUND IS TRANSPARENT. Which it unfortunately isn't.
See the example URL above, which is bare-stripped HTML code to demonstrate.
I've viewed this from Mac and Intel hardware, and through Mac, Windows, and Ubuntu OS, in serveral combinations (Firefox, IE, Chrome).
Only Safari on Mac does it correctly - it allows the background to show through the extra vertical space that the controller does not use.
On my home machine, Firefox, using Quicktime, shows white bars above and below the Quicktime controller.
(Chrome did the same thing, on a Toshiba running XP.)
IE using WindowsMedia also fails, but differently: it shows black instead of white, and puts the controller at the bottom.
Firefox on Ubuntu 8 does the same, except using the Totem player.
(Firefox on Windows XP has another separate problem - it doesn't show a controller at all.)
I've tried all combinations of parameters for the object that I can find, including wmode transparent, but nothing corrects it.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set up valid object tag for audio/mpeg. Code can be as in my example above:
####CSS:
body { background-color: blue; }
####HTML:
<body>
<object type="audio/mpeg" data="../Poems-recs/She_comes-vA1.mp3" width="140" height="70">
<param name="src" value="../Poems-recs/She_comes-vA1.mp3">
<param name="autoplay" value="false" >
<param name="autostart" value="0">
</object>
</body>
2. View page through Firefox, Safari, Explorer, Chrome
3. If height in HTML, or in CSS, is taller than the controller chosen by the OS to render the audio/mpeg object, then white will show above and below for Quicktime, and black will show above for others. They should be transparent, or at least there should be a way to make them transparent.
Actual Results:
white border, black border
Expected Results:
background should be transparent
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Comment 1•15 years ago
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This is a mass search for bugs which are in the Firefox General component, are
UNCO, have not been changed for 500 days and have an unspecified version.
Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10 or later, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the issue, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the status to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.
Whiteboard: [CLOSEME 2010-11-01]
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Comment 2•15 years ago
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No reply from reporter, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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Comment 3•15 years ago
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Sorry, I don't recall getting a mass-search notice about this before.
On retesting with FF 3.6.12, I do find this bug. The controller background is still not transparent and shows a large block of white around the controller. In Safari, by contrast, as before, it is transparent and so only the controller is seen, not the enclosing box.
So I believe this still needs to be addressed, and I've changed the status back to 'unconfirmed'.
Note that my test file is no longer online since I'm no longer maintaining my own server; however it should be easy to test with the code I supplied.
s.r.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INCOMPLETE → ---
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Reporter | |
Updated•15 years ago
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Updated•15 years ago
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Whiteboard: [CLOSEME 2010-11-01]
Version: unspecified → 3.6 Branch
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Comment 4•13 years ago
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Reporter, can you still reproduce using a current version?
If no, please set status to RESOLVED and resolution to WORKSFORME.
If yes, please provide updated information.
Whiteboard: [closeme 2013-07-25][FF3.x]
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Comment 5•13 years ago
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Hi,
Wow, 5 years and nobody else cared. And eventually I didn't care either. :-)
I've just now checked FF 22 and it doesn't do the behaviour, so I'll close the bug. (I don't know whether it's fixed in Windows or Chrome; Safari still OK).
Just to be clear: I'm glad it's fixed! It looked awful with white boxes around the audio controller when the BG colour was different. Maybe now I'll finish that web site I was building in 2008 when this one stumped me. :-)
SR
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago → 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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