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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">On 2 Aug 2006 at 10:53, Geoff Stearns wrote:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> yeah the main thing to be aware of, is that if you change the</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> position: css of any parent to a Flash element, firefox (i think) will</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> redraw all the children of that element... which is a really crappy</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> 'bug' (not sure if it's an official bug or not, but IE and Safari i</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> think don't do it) </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> so when it reflows that stuff, it will reset your Flash movie (which</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> is probably why the swfobject dissapears and comes back - it's</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> reloading the whole thing - you could test this by looking at the sun</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> animation - it starts at the bottom and then slowly rises up, so you</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> can see if it's resetting entirely or just blinking out for a second. </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">I had not noticed that ..</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">I tried dragging so_tester.swf .. as in example posted .. in both IE6 and FF1.5</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">In both cases the movie does not reset to to "sunrise state" after being dragged. </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">So no sign of this bug so far.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Perhaps because the relative position of the nested <div id="flashcontent"> is not
being changed and it is the wrapper <div id="dragflash"> which is being dragged?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">I don't know .. but I'll watch for this effect. Thanks. </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">DL</span></font></div>
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