flash placeholder problem on usopen.org

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Re: flash placeholder problem on usopen.org

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therube wrote:So is the concern you are having that it is giving a placeholder for a "Flash object", yet the "object" is not Flash - at least not at that point?
I believe I already explained it. In Fx3.5 the placeholder url is wrong. It should be http://www.usopen.org/uso/flash/LiveVid ... loader.swf and not http://www.usopen.org/en_US/console/con ... .html&alt=, which is the url of the page itself. Furthermore when you activate it the player does not load, confirmed by Foam Head. In Fx2, the placeholder is ok, but there is an additional spurious blocked flash object in the blocked objects menu with the url of the page.

On the homepage, there is also a bad placeholder (long horizontal bar) with the url of the page http://www.usopen.org/en_US/index.html and the placeholder for the central flash object and a few other are missing.
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Re: flash placeholder problem on usopen.org

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I'm having a really hard time at testing it, because in Italy I'm redirected to a "Forbidden content page" rather than loading the Flash preloader.
However I'm trying to reverse-engineer the page to figure out what's going on.
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Re: flash placeholder problem on usopen.org

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Giorgio Maone wrote:I'm having a really hard time at testing it, because in Italy I'm redirected to a "Forbidden content page" rather than loading the Flash preloader.
However I'm trying to reverse-engineer the page to figure out what's going on.
Perhaps you can find an anonymous US proxy, since speed is not an issue there should be plenty of those.

The homepage, which should not be blocked for you, also has similar placeholder problems, some are missing, some (at least one) are bogus, having the url of the page itself. I suspect that if those are fixed the player page will be as well.
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Re: flash placeholder problem on usopen.org

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Giorgio Maone wrote:I'm having a really hard time at testing it, because in Italy I'm redirected to a "Forbidden content page" rather than loading the Flash preloader.
However I'm trying to reverse-engineer the page to figure out what's going on.
If you can give me some tips on how to snag some debug info for you, I'll be glad to do so. I'm JavaScript and FireBug literate so I don't imagine it'll be too difficult. You can post the info here, PM me, or send an email to the address I signed up with.

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Re: flash placeholder problem on usopen.org

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This should be fixed in latest development build 1.9.8.81.
Special thanks go to GOL who kindly contributed proxy/VPN testing infrastructure :)
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