89544 - links in flash plug-in don't work

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Monica Narula]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607
BuildID:    2001060712

Inspite of downloading Flash plugin twice, the links in the flash plugin of my
OWN site do not work!!!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to www.sarai.net
2.Try clicking links in Flash
3.

Actual Results:  Does not work

Expected Results:  It should go to the linked page, as it happens in every other
browser

Comment 1

[shrirang khanzode]

peter, is this the plugin scriptability issue ?

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

This works for me under Mac/2001071903.

The HTML is rather bizarre. It appears to have been generated by FrontPage (explanation 
enough in and of itself) which has constructed the Shockwave Flash elements as follows:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://
download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=4,0,2,0" 
width="329" height="230" name="Homeani">
	<param name="movie" value="homeimages/main.swf">
	<param name="quality" value=high>
	<embed src="homeimages/main.swf" quality=high pluginspage="http://
www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=
ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="329" height="230" name=
"Homeani">
		<noembed>
			<img src="homeimages/homeani1.jpg" width="329" height="230">
		</noembed>
	</embed>
</object>

So, it seems to have used the OBJECT element not as a method of embedding the SWF 
file, but rather to indicate some sort of bizarre version information for the nested 
EMBED. (It bears mentioning that EMBED is part of no actual HTML DTD.)

In the minimal testcase attached, a perfectly legal HTML 4 document includes an OBJECT 
element to embed one of Monica's SWF files, and it works also in the aforementioned 
Moz build.

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

Attachment: Valid HTML 4.01 testcase of one of Monica's SWF files embedded as an OBJECT.