Christian Giordano wrote:
Since the browsers render swfs in a top layer over the html, and the last swf updated is the one on top, the style z-index attribute is not enough to overlay a swf over another. Does anyone know if it is possible, and maybe how? Googling around I just found swf over html (so using z-index).
If the browser supports WMODE drawing, then it should be able to composite these two SWFs together according to CSS depth. (Usually plugins draw direct-to-screen for performance reasons, but some browsers let them route their pixels into the area of memory where the browser constructs its display, before blasting that offscreen buffer to the monitor, and this is triggered by the (mercifully) single WMODE value.)
The "which browsers support wmode?" issue is a hard one... every now and then a Macromedia document is rewritten describing what we've seen among various current browser brands, platforms and versions, along with varied authoring features (in DIV, with printing, etc), but I know of no updated third-party reference on the subject... seems like a good opensource/wiki type of project.
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