It's not possible. According to one of Flash Player's engineers:

[D]esigners can embed Flash content in 3 different ways by specifying
wmode<http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/142/tn_14201.html>
> :
>
>    1. Normal
>    2. Opaque
>    3. Transparent
>
> Normal means that you can't have overlapping HTML sitting on top of your
> SWF, Opaque allows it and Transparent means that the SWF is transparent and
> underlying HTML content will show through.
>

Source: http://pwrk.us/fp

- philip



On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:51 AM, bobbietodd <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am using swfobject (dynamic publishing) to embed flash content in
> HTML.
>
> I really want to use a lightbox to display artwork over the flash.  Is
> there anyway this can be done WITHOUT setting wmode to either opaque
> or transparent? I published my swf file (Flash Player 10, ActionScript
> 3) and when wmode = anything other than the default of window, Firefox
> 3 (3.5.8 precisely) simply will not play my flash content.
>
> I know there have been long-standing issues with Firefox and wmode,
> but is there a workaround? To display artwork (at a decent size), a
> lightbox would do the job perfectly. But without usability on Firefox,
> I would have to look for another solution. Any ideas?
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