Bug 16839 - Plug In made by Acordex no longer functions in Safari 3
Summary: Plug In made by Acordex no longer functions in Safari 3
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Plug-ins (show other bugs)
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware: Mac OS X 10.4
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
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Keywords: InRadar
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Reported: 2008-01-11 07:13 PST by Richard Berg
Modified: 2015-06-22 19:15 PDT (History)
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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.