[SWFObject] wmode=transparent

[Geoff Stearns]

no it works fine with swfobject, i'm saying that the wmode parameter  
in general has issues in some browsers.




On May 10, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Dimitry Saïd Chamy wrote:

> I had problems with it too...  seemed to work just fine until I was
> at a client's windows machine and none of my flash movies where
> showing even after I got them to download the latest flash player. So
> I disabled SWFObject on all the sites.
>
> Are you saying wmode=transparent breaks SWFObject?
>
> Regardless of the merits, is there a workaround?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>> 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.
>
>
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