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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
