Re: flash problem

[Denis Prost <denis.prost@wanadoo.fr>]

Hi Raúl,

Thanks for your answer.

Le mercredi 10 septembre 2008 à 22:54 Raúl Sánchez Siles a écrit :
> El Miércoles 10 Septiembre 2008, Denis Prost escribió:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm new to the list, but have been facing a problem with konqueror 3.5.9
> > (debian testing) for a long time : in some circumstances, I can't get
> > flash to be displayed properly :
> > For example :
> > 1) I go to :
> > http://www.viamichelin.co.uk/viamichelin/gbr/tpl/hme/MaHomePage.htm?redir
> >ec t=true 2) then enter london as departure city and liverpool as
> > destination city 3) then, click on search
> > And I'm stuck with the "loading" picture, no result displayed.
> >
> > The same sequence with iceweasel works, I get the search result.
> >
> > I checked iceweasel and konqueror : both use the same plugin for
> > application/x-shockwave-flash MIME type.
> > (the one from the flashplayer-mozilla 9.0.124.0-0.0 package)
> >
> > I browsed the list archive for a solution but did not find it.
> > Can anyone help me ?
> > Thanks in advance.
>
>   I'm afraid the problem is not in the flash plugin, but in some sort of
> javascript compatibility issue. Unfortunately this kind of webs are not
> tested against konqueror, and not only that, most of them includes
> uncompatible hacks depending on the browser you use.
>
>   I can propose you this solutions for getting it to work on konqueror.
> First one is trying with different browser user agent identification,
> change this on Tools->change browser identification
>
>   The other one is testing with konqueror 4.1.1, it may work or not, but in
> case it doesn't we are lucky that hopefully you can report it and it will
> get solved in a reasonable amount of time. KDE3 is not developed anymore
> upstream and if you need a fix like that chances are that KDE4 will provide
> it.
>

I tried changing the browser user agent identification, it still does not 
work.
But with konqueror 4.1.1 it mostly works (just another non blocking problem 
remaining). So I guess I'll wait for the time when I upgrade KDE.

Regards,

Denis