[SWFObject] wmode=transparent

[Geoff Stearns]

the only time you should use wmode = transparent is if you need to  
place something behind your flash movie... or need it to be otherwise  
transparent.

if you want to place stuff on top of the flash movie (but not  
behind), you should use wmode = opaque, because the performance is  
much better than transparent...

wmode = transparent also takes a good chunk of cpu time to run, so  
turning that off will improve your swf performance.


On May 10, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Michael Krisher wrote:

> I just ran into popups not working in IE and through a search found
> the culprit was wmode=transparent. After some rethinking I realized I
> didn't need it for anything and think I left it in originally because
> it was in one of the examples I was looking at to learn SWFObject. I
> am redirecting users that don't have the plug-in, and I don't need to
> knock out the background of my Flash movie.
>
> Would wmode be needed in anyway if I were not redirecting and was
> simply going to replace static content with Flash content should a
> user have the plugin?
>
> Thanks,
> -- Mike
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