G"day Nate,
Thanks for your comments. 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 ? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia 0422 985 585 Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks Pty Ltd http://afpwebworks.com <http://afpwebworks.com/> Full Scale ColdFusion hosting from A$15/month _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nate hanna Sent: Thursday, 18 October 2007 12:59 AM To: [email protected] 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 the attachment); and with the movie taking too long to download (you may want to either break the movie up into smaller movies or use the "bandwidth profile" in flash to help you spread out the download across multiple frames ( i.e. download a little up front and then continue the download as needed later so the user doesn't have to wait as long). As for the flickering that people are seeing in Safari... here is a helpful link from Adobe's CSS Advisor: Fixing <http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=showdetails&pr oductId=1&postId=1801> Safari's wmode flicker. Lastly, what was your reasoning for choosing "wmode='transparent'" typically you only want to do that if you need to reveal something behind flash within the HTML. Transparent wmode is NOT supported by Linux and has issues with some Macintosh browsers ( i.e. Safari). If you don't need to reveal anything under flash it's better to use "wmode='opaque'". Furthermore, there are accessibility concerns when using "wmode" (i.e. flash becomes invisible to screen readers when "wmode" is set; see the following two links: * http://dynamicflash.com/2006/10/flash-accessibility-and-wmode/ * http://justin.everett-church.com/index.php/2006/02/23/wmode-woes/ Best Regards, Nate On 10/17/07, Nick Cowie < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: 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 Safari 2.0.4 ps that flash movie took ages to download. should be split into smaller pieces that get called as movie progresses. Nick ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
