Re: No Non-Microsoft browser support? What happned?


How does it fail on XP? It shouldn't necessarily...

Firefox had an interesting architectural choice to make a ways back -
contextually they kept support for the Netscape Navigator 3 plug-in
architecture that the Windows Media Player 6 Netscape plug-in uses. WMP6
has been in legacy mode for years (WMP7 came out in 2000 or so), and has
been slowly fading off the radar. So you had this half-....ed solution both
ways: an architecture from Netscape 3 that was kept chugging along, and the
third party WMP6 plug-in (as noted in the Company field "written by Digital
Renaissance") from eons ago.

Contextually at this time the best solution that I'm aware of is the ActiveX
plug-in for Firefox. This article:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=206213
is a really great summary of both possible solutions, with the caveat that
the deprecated WMP6 is no longer included in Vista, so using the WMP6
Netscape 3 plug-in probably would not be viable. The ActiveX plug-in should
work fine.

3rd party browser support is an important task to get right.

-Zach
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See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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"Scott" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Windows Media Player automatically worked just fine in Firefox,
Mozilla Suite, Opera and Netscape for YEARS.

Then WMP 11 is released and that is no longer the case.

Any site recurring Windows Media Player won't work in Firefox 2.0 or
Opera 9.

I've experienced this problem in Windows XP Professional SP2 and
Windows Vista Ultimate x64.

I've found a few "hacks" to get it working but they shouldn't be
necessary.

What's the deal Microsoft?

Is this a bug or a "feature"?

And how do I report such a bug?

Nothing's crashing, it's just not working.



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