[SWFObject] SWFObject Digest, Vol 3, Issue 26

[Jim Berkey]

Thanks for being kind to an old fart :) my wife tells me very often how dumb I am with some things. Yes, the perfect search engine page content is indeed an elusive and constantly moving target.
jimbo
*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********

On 6/21/2006 at 1:08 PM Michael Ypes wrote:
Well there can be many reasons, mine was because I wanted it to be able to be search engine friendly, don’t google it though as it doesn’t come up J
 
Also if the user wants content under the menu which isn’t flash then there will probably be a whole bag of issues with that as well. Never tried it personally as I have tried to steer clear of it. If the content was all flash then they could, as you said, do a drop down menu driven by an external xml file. I did one when I built the animal site ( http://www.animal.co.uk – does not use the swfobject ).
 
>From a personal point of view I always prefer building navigation systems in flash as they are more appealing and you have full control in how they behave and interact with the user.
 
By the way I wouldn’t say your dumb, just intellectual challenged J he he
 
Cheers
 
M
 



From: swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com [mailto:swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com] On Behalf Of Jim Berkey
Sent: 21 June 2006 12:40
To: swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
Subject: Re: [SWFObject] SWFObject Digest, Vol 3, Issue 26
 
What am I missing? After following this thread for a while, I see a flash author trying to jigger a css dropdown menu to work cross-browser on top of a flash file. Am I dumb(rhetorical- please don't answer)?  - why don't you just create the menu - much more elegantly (imho), within the flash file? Is there a design restraint that I'm not seeing? The menu can even be xml driven if it will change often.

*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********

On 6/21/2006 at 12:00 PM Gordon Newell wrote: 
Brion,
 
<div style="z-index: 2" id="header">  (I added the style="Z-index: 2")
 
and
 
<div style="z-index: 1" id="flash1">  (I added the style="Z-index: 1")
 
It works ;)
 
Gordon.
 



From: swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com [mailto:swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com] On Behalf Of Brion Keith Mills
Sent: Wednesday, 21 June 2006 9:53 AM
To: swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
Subject: Re: [SWFObject] SWFObject Digest, Vol 3, Issue 26
Thanks Jason,

However, when I changed to: so.addParam("wmode", "opaque"); I got the same results.

I'm beginning to think this is hopeless. Here's the link to the Flash in question: http://65.115.104.39/1105Media/index_v3.html
On 6/20/06, Jason Grunstra <jgrunstra at gmail.com> wrote: 
wmode = "opaque" typically gives better frame rate performance, and
will also allow you to display layers overtop of Flash

> Subject: Re: [SWFObject] SWF Object and CSS drop menus
> did you try wmode = "transparent" ? 
>
> On 6/20/06, Brion Mills <bmills at 101com.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello Geoff,
> >
> > Let me first start off by both thanking and congradulating you on your 
> success with swfObject.
> >
> > I am contacting you regarding an issue that was brought up in your "Why
> don't you use FlashObject?" post.
> >
> > In the comments section, a user addressed the problems with Flash 
> transparency. I implemented your suggestion to place the fo.write after all
> of the parameters. I did that and it worked partially.
> >
> > I am using a CSS drop menu, with a touch of javascript. FF of course 
> doesn't cause any issues. However, IE6 doesn't agree with this at all. Upon
> rolling over the menu, the flash movie still forces the menu items behind
> it. I have tried a number of z-index solutions with no success. 
> >
> > If you have the time, could you please show me a contextual example of how
> this should work?
> >
> > Thanks again for all of your hard work!
> >
> > Brion 
_______________________________________________
SWFObject mailing list
SWFObject at lists.deconcept.com
http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com



-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Brion K. Mills,
Interactive Media Designer
Creative Mills Design 
www.creative-mills.com 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.deconcept.com/pipermail/swfobject-deconcept.com/attachments/20060621/e3816358/attachment.htm>