Josh Santangelo wrote:
Has anyone seen examples of Flash running within a browser and being layer over top of Quicktime and/or Windows Media plugins? I can get it to work with Flash over Windows Media in IE/Win, but no other plugin/browser/os combinations seem to work.
Plugins usually render directly to the screen, because this gives the best performance. That's why they render on top. If you try to layer two plugins like this, then they'll both fight for the same pixels in the screen.
Most browsers these days, at least on Mac and Win, also let plugins pipe their content into the browser's own rendering buffer. This lets you layer and do background-transparency. Plugins which can take advantage of this behavior usually do so through a "WMODE" instruction in the HTML markup which invokes the plugin.
I don't know the status of QuickTime and Windows Media Player for this type of work... from what you describe, it sounds like WMP in IE can layer like Flash, but I'm not sure if QuickTime ever implemented WMODE-style redirects.
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