Firefox, flash, web page: Who's fault?
Kam Leo
kam.leo at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 01:20:25 UTC 2008
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:53:05 -0400 (EDT)
> vicki at thepenguin.org wrote:
>
> > I see this too. It is frustrating. I don't see it in IE or in Firefox on a
> > windows box. If you disable flash, the dropdown menus work fine. The
> > answer I always got was that the flash code is wrong. I would love to have
> > a more complete answer that would allow me to get it fixed. In at least
> > one instance, I am in a position to get the flash code modified.
>
> After doing enough searches on the firefox bugzilla site, I found
> a lot of similar reports over there. Most of them seem to claim it
> is a web page problem and point to a flash knowledge base entry that
> says specifying wmode to be transparent or opaque on the embed tag
> will make flash run in the same window rather than a separate window.
>
> Unfortunately, checking several sites where I see this bug, I do
> in fact see an "opaque" wmode tag, yet the menus still come out
> under the flash content.
>
> I think all the components involved believe it is a bug in a different
> component :-).
>
> Personally, I suspect the best fix would be for firefox to always
> implement popups such as menus as separate windows and force them to the
> top of the stack, then it wouldn't matter what the heck the plugins
> did (except maybe for plugins that constantly forced themselves
> to the top of the stack as well :-).
>
I don't have any problems with the si.com menus using Firefox in
Windows. Are there reports of this problem occuring in a Windows
environment?
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