656552 - Prompted to install Adobe Flash on Evan Roth's video page, but video plays just fine in WebM

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Websites Graveyard :: markup.mozilla.org, defect, P1)

Description

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

You don't seem to really _need_ the Adobe Flash player on https://markup-dev.allizom.org/en-US/about/evan-roth/, yet in a stock Firefox 4.01 build on Windows 7, you get prompted to download it.  The video itself actually plays back fine, natively, in WebM.

Screencast: http://screencast.com/t/MQcvb021pBQ

Comment 1

[Adam Miller]

Does it do the same thing on the GML video? https://markup-dev.allizom.org/en-US/about/gml/

GML falls back to the vimeo player if there's no support for the video tag, but Evan's falls back to the youtube player.

Comment 2

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

(In reply to comment #1)
> Does it do the same thing on the GML video?
> https://markup-dev.allizom.org/en-US/about/gml/
> 
> GML falls back to the vimeo player if there's no support for the video tag,
> but Evan's falls back to the youtube player.

No, the experience is fine there.

Comment 3

[Adam Miller]

Seems specific to youtube then.....Can we host Evan's video on vimeo then to get around this? 

I could do some hacks to try to get around this, but as with all hacks, I'd rather not do them when there's a better way.

Comment 4

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

This bug isn't that critical, I don't think, and I'd rather not take the potential risk in fixing it.  It only affects users who don't yet have Flash installed (a small subset of them) + potentially those who block Flash via FlashBlock, etc.

Comment 5

[Laura Mesa [:lmesa] [:lvmesa]]

I'm going to call this a won't fix because it shouldn't affect too many people and those is does affect likely won't be surprised at getting this message.

Comment 6

[Matt Brandt [:mbrandt]]

Verified wontfix per comment 5.