wwp@yahoogroups.com:
Mozilla bugs (was re: stop responding pan)
Richard Crowest 2006-Jul-10 11:02:00
Hans Nyberg wrote:
> Ha,Ha
> You apparently do not know the FF developers.
>
> Quicktime bugs in Mac FF not solved. Here are a couple
> I believe the oldest reports starts in 2001 or 2002
>
> QTVR paints outside window when window is resized
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171382
>
>
...
> Displaced rendering of Quicktime VR content when you resize a
> window or
> open page in a tab.
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236857
Yes, these have been around for a VERY long time. I mentioned these
bugs on this list and MacInTouch a year or two back and encouraged
people to vote for them to be fixed. The problem mysteriously went
away with QT7, came back with Firefox 1.5, but they do now seem to be
gone again (I'm on 1.5.0.3, though I don't know when it happened as I
now very rarely use Firefox, owing to these problems).
If all of this seems slightly off topic, it has led directly to at
least one WWP casualty - Irene Blueth's energy pano (http://
geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp905/html/IreneBlueth.html ) uses a QT fire
effect on the small version. The large version caused a complete
crash in Mac Firefox, and it seems that Irene must have removed the
effect to avoid crashing people's browsers, as it's not present on
the large version in any of my browsers now.
Firefox has improved a lot, but it's still monstrously slow at
loading very large (c. 5MB) panos from hard disk, as is its
stablemate Camino. It may be, of course, that it's not really the
Mozilla project's fault - I think Safari uses a different plugin.
Most bizarre of all is the fact that I get better QT performance all
round on my Windows machine - I wonder how the Intel Macs fare. I
still live in hope that a future QT version might introduce OpenGL
rendering like that used in PangeaVR and SpiV...
On a completely unrelated, and far more important, note, Don - very
glad to have you back. Hope your recovery's going well.
Richard
P.S. Just noticed that Gardens is live - did I miss the announcement?
Congratulations everyone.
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