Re: FLASH: Scene 1: of IE 5, Flash and layer order

[John Dowdell]

Yes, that's true, the WMODE attribute for the Flash ActiveX Control invokes

IE/Win's ability to composite things together. This allows background

transparency, but also the ability to overlay HTML text upon the Flash

movie.


(I'd recommend holding off on judgments about Netscape 6... it's just a

preview release. I don't know if they fully implemented a new version of

the "windowless plugin" spec.)


Summary: The browsers can easily layer static unchanging content, but can't

always layers content which actively redraws itself, such as Flash or

applets or even some FORM elements. One minor exception is IE4+/Win32, when

the Flash Player's "wmode" attribute is set.


jd






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