Re: FLASH:Layers problem?

[John Dowdell]

If this is "How can I have a browser put a layer above a Flash movie?" then

only a few browsers support this... it won't work in all browsers, and not

even just the ones that have layers.


Specifically, IE4+/Win32 can support realtime compositing of Flash content

if you give the OBJECT tag the WMODE parameter, as described in the Flash

documentation or at http://www.dhtmlzone.com/swdhtml/ .


It's rare to see this used, though... pretty if you're in the right

browser, but rarely chosen for mainstream design.


(Background: The 4.0+ browsers can composite static content such as bitmaps

or text in DIVs, but they generally don't composite content which can

dynamically redraw itself, such as video or applets or even some FORM

elements.)


jd







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