Placeholder problem on Apple Events

[Alan Baxter]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
NoScript 2.1.0.4rc7, default settings except I've checked Apply these restrictions to whitelisted sites too.
Default theme, no other extensions.

On http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1 ... index.html
there is a placeholder for the blocked Quicktime video. The problem is that clicking the placeholder does nothing and there is no tooltip explaining exactly what is being blocked. I am able to get it to play by allowing everything from the Blocked Objects flyout.

Is this a bug?

[al_9x]

http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopi ... =10&t=3378

The placeholder issue is not worth fixing until activation can be made to work, by connecting the plugin object to its JS controls on instantiation. I may give it a shot. In the meantime you have to activate through the menu and refresh.

[Alan Baxter]

Thanks for replying. I reported a similar problem a couple of months ago and received no reply.
Placeholder problem on http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

[Giorgio Maone]

In this case it's a DOM layout problem: the movie UI controls are overlayed in front (over) the movie itself, therefore clicks are swallowed by the UI layer.
I can try fixing it by intercepting every click and geometrically checking if intersects any placeholder rectangle, but I'm not sure how expensive it can be (not much, I suspect).

[Alan Baxter]

Thanks. Not sure if you should bother, especially if there's much run time or maintenance cost. I can live with it. The Blocked Objects menu is easy enough to use.