Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-26 Thread Chris Wilson
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rogier Schoenmaker Sent: Friday, 26 October 2007 5:03 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash Mike, Just for your information Iceweasel IS firefox, just with another

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-26 Thread Michael Kear
@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash Come off it. Under no circumstance has it ever cost us more to do it right than to do it poorly; shoddy workmanship always results in higher costs. If it is costing you too much to do it right, you are doing more than just your

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-26 Thread Andrew Maben
On Oct 26, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Michael Kear wrote: Good lord I’m glad you don’t run my development process. Let bloody debian fix their problem! Why should I have to spend MY time fixing things because they don’t get it right??? ... you are not fit to manage a commercial development

RE: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-26 Thread Michael Kear
_ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Wilson Sent: Friday, 26 October 2007 4:10 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash Come off it. Under no circumstance has it ever cost us more to do it right than

[WSG] How to make DHML cover flash - ADMION - THRERAD CLOSED

2007-10-26 Thread russ - maxdesign
ADMIN ­ THREAD CLOSED These sort of comments are not acceptable between members: you are doing more than just your coding wrong you are not fit to manage a commercial development operation Michael and Chris ­ this thread has now been closed as it has deteriorated into an emotional exchange that

RE: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-26 Thread Mark L Hedley
Standards Group | Independent Web Developers Portal | HTML Writers Guild From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Maben Sent: 26 October 2007 14:38 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash On Oct 26, 2007, at 9:21 AM

RE: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-25 Thread Michael Kear
://afpwebworks.com Full Scale ColdFusion hosting from A$15/month -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Montoya Sent: Wednesday, 24 October 2007 6:12 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash - ADMIN

2007-10-25 Thread russ - maxdesign
ADMIN A reminder to all WSG members (and this is not directed at any one individual) this list is all about helping each other. Please refrain from attacking, abusing or ridiculing anyone. Be civil and courteous. If you have nothing positive, informative or helpful to say, please refrain from

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-25 Thread Rogier Schoenmaker
Of Christian Montoya Sent: Wednesday, 24 October 2007 6:12 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Kear Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 6:14 PM To: wsg

RE: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-25 Thread Michael Kear
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rogier Schoenmaker Sent: Friday, 26 October 2007 5:03 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash Mike, Just for your information Iceweasel IS firefox, just with another name (build from the firefox

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-23 Thread James Ellis
:55 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash Hello, Just so you know, there's no dropdown shown in Firefox (IceWeasel) for debian, neither for Epiphany and Konquerer doesn't seem to work with flash. Hope it's useful. Regards, Rogier Schoenmaker

RE: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-23 Thread Ted Drake
for win. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Kear Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 6:14 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash Thanks Rogier, I appreciate your help. Since we are likely to have

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-23 Thread Christian Montoya
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Kear Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 6:14 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash Since we are likely to have perhaps 1 or 2 users only using any

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-22 Thread Rogier Schoenmaker
Hello, Just so you know, there's no dropdown shown in Firefox (IceWeasel) for debian, neither for Epiphany and Konquerer doesn't seem to work with flash. Hope it's useful. Regards, Rogier Schoenmaker. On 18/10/2007, nate hanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/17/07, Michael Kear [EMAIL

RE: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-22 Thread Michael Kear
Schoenmaker Sent: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 4:55 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash Hello, Just so you know, there's no dropdown shown in Firefox (IceWeasel) for debian, neither for Epiphany and Konquerer doesn't seem to work with flash. Hope it's

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-18 Thread nate hanna
On 10/17/07, Michael Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason for using wmode was to fix the problem that existed before. All I wanted was to make sure the dhtml drop down menu came down on top of the flash movie not underneath it. Is that not the best way ? Mike, unfortunately claiming wmode

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Crockford
On 17 Oct 2007, at 04:56, Nick Cowie wrote: I was experimenting with HTML over flash, and while param name=wmode value=transparent / works great on Windows. The flash plugin could not get the order right for OsX or *nix, no matter what I tried (source order, z-index etc). It was purely

RE: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-17 Thread Michael Kear
] On Behalf Of Nick Cowie Sent: Wednesday, 17 October 2007 1:57 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash On 16/10/2007, Michael Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has fixed the problem for IE6 and Firefox on Windows, so I'm assuming it's fixed for most of our

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Crockford
On 17 Oct 2007, at 08:01, Michael Kear wrote: Nick I'm away from my Mac machine for a couple of weeks .. Do you think you (or someone else with a mac) could do me a favour and have a look at the page in question and tell me if the problem is fixed or not on your mac? I see the dropdown

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-17 Thread Kit Grose
Mike, The drop-down menus drop down over the Flash for me in Safari 2.0.4 (on OS X v10.4.10), but not at all smoothly: the slide-down animation appears to flicker (especially noticeable on the stock service one). The flicker problem is an issue that happens a lot for Safari 2 users (but

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-17 Thread Nick Cowie
Michael No problems with flash and the menu on my Mac OsX 10.4.9 with FF, Safari or Opera Other than issues above, menu typeface is tiny in both FF and Opera, increasing font size to read them does do damage to the menus with FF, still usable though. Flickering is also visible for me with

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-17 Thread nate hanna
Michael, No problems with flash and the menu on my Mac OSX 10.4.10 with FF, and Safari 419.x (Tiger version (not the new beta)). Ditto on the font being too small on the drop-down menu (see the attachment); and with the movie taking too long to download (you may want to either break the movie up

RE: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-17 Thread Michael Kear
Scale ColdFusion hosting from A$15/month _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Cowie Sent: Wednesday, 17 October 2007 8:06 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash Michael No problems with flash

RE: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-17 Thread Michael Kear
, 18 October 2007 12:59 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash Michael, No problems with flash and the menu on my Mac OSX 10.4.10 with FF, and Safari 419.x (Tiger version (not the new beta)). Ditto on the font being too small on the drop-down menu (see

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-17 Thread Kit Grose
The reason for using wmode was to fix the problem that existed before. All I wanted was to make sure the dhtml drop down menu came down on top of the flash movie not underneath it. Is that not the best way ? I believe he's referring more to your use of wmode = transparent (rather than

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-16 Thread Michael MD
I have a page where there are some dhtml menus with drop downs across the top of the page, and a large flash object in the body of one of the pages. However the drop-down menu items are going underneath the flash object so they can't be clicked on. I thought I should just put the flash

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-16 Thread Kit Grose
Michael, A couple of things to make it work cross-browser: - Set the Flash element to have wmode set as opaque or transparent (if you use SWFobject, it's addParam('wmode','opaque');). - Position a transparent IFRAME behind the menus (really not simple if it's not functionality written into

RE: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-16 Thread Michael Kear
Thanks Michael and Kit, setting the wmode did the trick. Happily I didn't even need to go back to the flash programmer (who's in China and we have a language issue whenever we try to make a change - it's a long story but suffice to say I'm dealing with the designer in China like it or not!)

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-16 Thread Bruce
Kit Grose wrote: One of the more horrible problems drop-down menus experience. It appears it is universal, a client said he wanted a site similar to www.time.com Going there, guess what the top menu does... http://www.time.com/time/business Bruce bkdesign

Re: [WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-16 Thread Nick Cowie
On 16/10/2007, Michael Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has fixed the problem for IE6 and Firefox on Windows, so I'm assuming it's fixed for most of our target browsers. Probably not. If your target OSes other than windows, the flash plugin works quite differently on OsX and *nix. I was

[WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-15 Thread Michael Kear
I have a page where there are some dhtml menus with drop downs across the top of the page, and a large flash object in the body of one of the pages. However the drop-down menu items are going underneath the flash object so they can't be clicked on. I thought I should just put the flash