Flyout and Flash

[gluepack]

Is there a Firefox fix (it works ok on Chrome) for the flyout menus being covered by, for example, the Weather Underground Rapid Fire Display?
viz. http://jerbils.info/saratoga/wxwurealtime.php

[saratogaWX]

Yes, the Flash needs a parm of wmode=transparent to not be top-most in the Z-order.

I use this in my rapid-fire.php page:

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  <table width="550">
  <tr><td>
<div id="flashcontent" class="autosize"><b>Wunderground Rapid-Fire</b><br />You need to install v8, or greater, of Flash Player from <a href="http://www.adobe.com">Adobe</a> to view Wunderground Rapid-Fire.</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
   //
   var so = new SWFObject(
   "http://www.wunderground.com/swf/Rapid_Fire.swf?units=both&station=KCASARAT1", 
   "Rapid_fire.swf",
   550, 400, "8", "#FFFFFF");
   so.addParam("quality", "high");
   so.addParam("wmode", "transparent"); // needed to let the Flash object not be 'on top' of z-index
   so.write("flashcontent");
</script>
</td></tr>
</table>

[gluepack]

Well, I do have transparent. My code is different...

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<object width="800" height="532">
			<param name="movie" value="http://www.wunderground.com/swf/Rapid_Fire.swf?units=metric&station=IVARNAPR3" />
			<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
			<embed src="http://www.wunderground.com/swf/Rapid_Fire.swf?units=metric&station=IVARNAPR3" 
				type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="800" height="532" />
			</object>

It works ok in Chrome/Canary but not Firefox/Waterfox, Opera nor IE.
Perhaps it is your method.

[saratogaWX]

Running the code in my page results in the following being generated by the JavaScript

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<div id="flashcontent" class="autosize">
<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
src="http://www.wunderground.com/swf/Rapid_Fire.swf?units=both&station=KCASARAT1" 
id="Rapid_fire.swf" 
name="Rapid_fire.swf" 
bgcolor="#FFFFFF" 
quality="high"
 wmode="transparent" 
 height="400" width="550">

You might try that code instead of the <object> code .. it works fine in all browsers AFAIK...

[gluepack]

Well, it certainly works with Firefox/Waterfox. I'll try the rest at my leisure

Thanks for that.