2008/8/26 Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> <quote who="Scott Ragen">
>
>> I'm a little frustrated by web pages that display flash, and their popup
>> menus that become hidden behind it.
>> I know I could block flash, but I don't always want to do this.
>> I have searched the web and the only solutions I have found are targeted
>> for the web admins, and not the client browsers.
>
> Because of the way Flash works in X, it's not fixable until both Adobe and
> browser vendors (ie. Mozilla) sort it out. Mozilla has done their end of the
> task already, and some Flash implementations (such as swfdec, and possibly
> gnash, I'm not sure) already support it. I believe Adobe will support this
> in their next plugin release, but... we'll just have to wait and see.

Here are a couple of more specific links about this - Windowless mode
(that's the name for the issue) for Linux is being alpha-tested now:
Original mention of windowless mode support:
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/07/turkish_localization_also_wmod.html
And an important crash fix:
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/08/windowless_mode_fix.html

--Amos
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