Bug 16839

Summary:	Plug In made by Acordex no longer functions in Safari 3
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Richard Berg <rberg>
Component:	Plug-ins	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	Normal	CC:	andersca, webkit
Priority:	P2	Keywords:	InRadar
Version:	528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware:	Mac
OS:	OS X 10.4

Description Richard Berg 2008-01-11 07:13:05 PST

There is a quick time bug (see bug report 9214) which causes tiff documents (copies of patents) to be rendered incorrectly at the US Patent Office website (http://www.uspto.gov). See bug report 9214 for more details on that issue. This rendering bug was handled in Safari Version 2 using a plug in from acordex. Safari Version 3 broke the plug in made by acordex and apparently there is no work around for Safari 3. See http://www.acordex.com/browseProd/VTplugin.html for an explanation. The programmers at acordex can probably explain the issue.

The QT bug has been a long standing bug. Acordex fixed it with a plug in. Since there has been little interest at Apple to fix the underlying bug in QT, at least fix Safari 3 so that the plug in made by acordex will function in Safari 3 (as it does in Safari 2) properly.

Comment 1 Mark Rowe (bdash) 2008-01-11 07:33:33 PST

<rdar://problem/5683458>

Comment 2 Robert Blaut 2008-07-30 03:36:51 PDT

Confirmed in the latest WebKit r35417 for Mac OS X.

Comment 3 Anders Carlsson 2015-06-22 19:15:11 PDT

This plug-in has been discontinued, and ImageIO now handles the uspto.gov format natively, so this is unlikely to be fixed.