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sonic
Web export - improper rendering in Firefox
Apr 23rd, 2010, 6:27am  
I'm not sure exactly where to put this post, but I've exported an animation to the web and find that while Safari renders it correctly, Firefox does not, placing some white blocks around part of the frame. Here is the link:

http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/~rherrema/dww3/applet/

I've occasionally seen similar behaviour when using present mode in Processing. Anyone have an idea what's going on? And do you in fact see the white blocks I'm talking about?
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PhiLho 
Re: Web export - improper rendering in Firefox
Reply #1 - Apr 23rd, 2010, 6:33am  
This Topic was moved here from Syntax Questions by PhiLho.
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PhiLho 
Re: Web export - improper rendering in Firefox
Reply #2 - Apr 23rd, 2010, 6:39am  
The sketch itself is fine.
I see a small white square just above the sketch.
I also see a yellow bar on top of the page: "Additional plugins are necessary to display all elements of this page" (approximative translation from French...).
Viewing the source, I see:
Code:
<embed src="http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/~rherrema/sounds/BeneathTheSurface.mp3" autostart=true width=0 height=0 id="sound1"
enablejavascript="true">

In the head of the page! It should be in the body, maybe that's the main source of your issue, sometime Firefox is stricter than other browsers.

I suppose I don't have a media player installed in Firefox (and don't want, I hate pages starting to play music suddenly...), hence the warning and the white box.
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sonic
Re: Web export - improper rendering in Firefox
Reply #3 - Apr 23rd, 2010, 7:15am  
I've moved the code to the body, PhiLho, but I get the same result. Are you on a Mac? And if so, which version of the OS and which version of Firefox?

thanks
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PhiLho 
Re: Web export - improper rendering in Firefox
Reply #4 - Apr 23rd, 2010, 1:07pm  
Windows XP Pro SP3, Firefox 3.6.3
But as long as I don't install a player for MP3s, I will see this white square...
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sonic
Re: Web export - improper rendering in Firefox
Reply #5 - Apr 25th, 2010, 10:30am  
I thought I'd post a screen cap of how this appears on my machine:

http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/~rherrema/graphics/renderError.jpg
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PhiLho 
Re: Web export - improper rendering in Firefox
Reply #6 - Apr 25th, 2010, 11:01pm  
Do you hear music when running your applet?
Perhaps that's just the default rendering of your MP3 player embedded in Firefox...
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sonic
Re: Web export - improper rendering in Firefox
Reply #7 - Apr 26th, 2010, 6:36am  
Yes, it's playing the mp3 file. But when I change the helper application settings, nothing changes - even if I assign mp3 play to an outside app, the embedded mp3 is handled from within Firefox, so it's hard for me to test your hypothesis. I guess I could try it without the mp3 . . .
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sonic
Re: Web export - improper rendering in Firefox
Reply #8 - Apr 26th, 2010, 6:42am  
OK, when I take out the embedded mp3, there's no white square. Weird. Any thoughts on how to combat this? The mp3 is absolutely integral.
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PhiLho 
Re: Web export - improper rendering in Firefox
Reply #9 - Apr 26th, 2010, 7:10am  
Why don't you use Minim to play the MP3 file? Thus it wouldn't depend on the available plugins in the user's browser.
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sonic
Re: Web export - improper rendering in Firefox
Reply #10 - May 2nd, 2010, 1:03pm  
PhiLho, I guess I assumed that the user would also need Minim installed on their computer. Not so? You might recall, though, that the other issue is that I have not been able to export having large audio files in my data folder. Can minim play files outside the data folder?
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