[SWFObject] wmode=transparent

[Michael Krisher]

wmode doesn't break SWFObject, however if you are popping any windows  
from your Flash movie it will trigger IE's popup blocker when  
wmode=transparent, not sure about opaque.

-- Mike

On May 10, 2006, at 9:18 PM, swfobject at blazingimages.com wrote:

> I'm using wmode as both transparent and opaque on windows 2K and xp
> machines with FlashObject and SWF Object without any problem in
> multiple browsers. I did make the mistake of using so.addVariable
> instead of addParam for wmode which has it do nothing, but doesn't
> break it as far as I know.
>
> At 10:49 AM 5/10/2006, you 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> SWFObject mailing list
>> SWFObject at lists.deconcept.com
>> http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> SWFObject mailing list
> SWFObject at lists.deconcept.com
> http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com