I use Firefox most of the time - it does what I want, and it’s set up nicely for me. So, when I go to a page (mostly Microsoft owned sites) that has a SoapBox video on it, I know I’m in for trouble.
Take this post on the Windows Vista Blog about the Microsoft Silverlight DreamScenes.
If I click on any of the controls in the video - I’m instantly redirected to this page:
It’s not as though Firefox can’t play the video - if I can hit Stop quickly enough, it’ll actually play - but they deem it necessary to wrap the “embed” inside an Anchor tag.
IE ofcourse, doesn’t have an issue with this - it passes Click event to the plugin, and then discards it.
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What do i keep saying… It’s Microsoft for you! Does not play well by itself and plays even worse with others
May 1st, 2007 at 6:58 am. Permalink.
I think it was a bug with that blog entry.
I’ve never had any problems with Soapbox, and heck, Steve Clayton has put that video on his blog and it works fine for me!
(http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2007/05/01/silverlight-dreamscene.aspx)
May 2nd, 2007 at 10:23 am. Permalink.