497218 - [IE 6 / 7 / 8] Screencasts won't render in Internet Explorer (all versions)

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

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Sadly, this is a blocker for the upcoming 1.1 release.

In IE (6 / 7 / 8), trying to view the Flash videos results in just a static background where the screencast should be.

Test URL: https://support-stage.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/I+forever+want+to+test+screencasts

Comment 1

[E. Cooper [:ecooper]]

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After spending way too much time debugging this, it seems like an 'Invalid Argument' exception is being thrown from within jQuery's code. I haven't had time to run an uncompressed version (that is, no minify) of jQuery to see what the problem is yet, though. It seems to have something to do with dynamic creation and appending of elements. Again, all I've had is a lame IE error to work with so I am by no means positive.

Also, IE is the only one suffering from this. *All* other browser work normally.

This patch gets rid of dynamic creation of elements via jQuery for some old-fashion string concatenation. 

Things I can confirm:
* SWF files work in IE 6 even in wine and Ubuntu. 
* FLV files are loading in the swf player, but refusing to display the toolbar or play. I believe this is a quark for IE 6 only or my setup (also IE 6 only). This doesn't work even if I use static html for the embed code that I can confirm works in IE 6. If someone could verify, that'd be swell.
* <video> still doesn't work, which means the detection does.
* Things are still swell in 3.0.X and 3.1/3.5

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

This needs to go in ASAP if we're to hope for a Thursday push; that said, it still doesn't fix all the IE issues (according to Eric, above); are we happy with that, as long as it doesn't regress Firefox?

Comment 3

[Laura Thomson :laura]

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v1

I can commit this if you've already left...

Comment 4

[Laura Thomson :laura]

In r27499 / r27501

Comment 5

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

(In reply to comment #1)
<snip>

> * FLV files are loading in the swf player, but refusing to display the toolbar
> or play. I believe this is a quark for IE 6 only or my setup (also IE 6 only).
> This doesn't work even if I use static html for the embed code that I can
> confirm works in IE 6. If someone could verify, that'd be swell.

I filed 497461 to cover this.

Comment 6

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified FIXED, now that bug 497461 is filed.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/ScreencastsTestPlan#Matrix_of_supported_browsers: has the results, and we're looking fine.