That's not entirely accurate. WMode works on other platforms (including
Mac OS X). But it is still limited in many ways - it only works in
Safari 1.2+ for example, and on most platforms flash player 6 (r65) is
required.
WMode info:
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/kn...fm?id=tn_14201
"DHTML Layers" info:
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/kn...fm?id=tn_15523
I've never tested this on Linux.
To answer your actual question - it does look like you are out of luck
with transparency on most versions of Opera - the latest version 8.02
does support the transparent mode though.
Kevin N.
Martin Honnen wrote:[color=blue]
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> Sura wrote:
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>> I have designed a simple DHTML menu which comes over a flash animation
>> when it appears. I have set the window mode as transparent in the flash
>> project. This menu is showing fine when seen with IE, Netscape,
>> Firefox. Yet in Opera the menu is going behind the flash animation.[/color]
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> I think Opera 8 (only on Win) supports wmode for Flash, earlier versions
> not.
> And as I understand wmode for Flash works only on the Windows platform,
> whatever browser you use, so Firefox users on the Mac or on LINUX for
> instance might still have the problem that the Flash movie sits on top
> of your DHTML menu.
> Thus on the web in general if you expect all kind of users with
> different browsers and different versions of browsers on different
> platforms you can't rely on CSS z-index stacking of normal HTML content
> and Plugin content like Flash content, even if it works with a few
> versions of browsers on some platforms.
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