231557 - slingair.com.au - Flash plugin should be transparent over the image

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 137189

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Richard Tresidder]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

The flash plugin in this page is set to be transparent, and it is in Internet
Explorer, There is an image below it that should be visible.
In Mozilla 1.3.1 this transparent area was black... It is now white in Mozilla 1.6



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

confirming using Firebird 20040119 trunk on Win2k.

There's no "wmode=transparent" in the <embed tag used for NS4.x/Mozilla browsers
whereas it's there for the <object tag used by IE.
URL:
http://www.slingair.com.au/new/home/slingair.htm

The fact it changed from black to white from Mozilla 1.3 to 1.6 must be a real
bug that got fixed.

Comment 2

[Richard Tresidder]

Actually.....

That did fix the problem under Windows..
But Mozilla under linux is still showing a White background.
Yes I cleared the cache and tried a shift-reload.
so it might be a bug after all..

Richard

Comment 3

[Olivier Cahagne]

can you check the examples at bottom of this URL on Linux ?
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/wmode.htm
Not sure if it's supported on Linux (because of windowless plugins issues).

It seems like the windowless feature is not available on Linux:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/special/beta/release_notes/
Perhaps then dupe of bug 137189.

Comment 4

[Richard Tresidder]

hmmm...
typical.

Thanks, I'll just have to wait for the next version of Flash then I spose..

Comment 5

[Bob Goldberg]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Actually.....
> 
> That did fix the problem under Windows..
> But Mozilla under linux is still showing a White background.
> Yes I cleared the cache and tried a shift-reload.
> so it might be a bug after all..
> 
> Richard

This problem IS clearly a bug - I've waited forever for it to be fixed; and each
new version of moz, it doesn't get fixed. I just upgraded to 1.6, and still have
the problem.

check out:
http://www.northshorecorvetteclub.org/testflash.html

the correct tag IS there, and this works WONDERFULLY under IE; but it looks
terrible under mozilla...

I haven't seen any of the programmers or tech people chime in; are they aware of
the problem?

I submitted this bug years ago; but haven't kept up. Was hoping this upgrade I
did (1.4 > 1.6) would fix it.

any other work arounds?
tia - Bob

Comment 6

[Jo Hermans]

see bug 93959 ...

Comment 7

[Richard Tresidder]

Hi Bob,
   I'm not sure that it is a bug under mozilla as such,  It works fine under
windows, but the transperancy won't work under linux.  This is due to the fact
that the macromedia guys have ben incredibly slack and have not fixed/upgraded
the linux flashplugin for ages now. There was a link below tha pointed to the
known issues for the linux flashplayer, and the windowless(transparent) feature
was one of them...
  Richard

Comment 8

[Alfonso Martinez]

the URL http://www.slingair.com.au/new/ is Access denied,
http://www.slingair.com.au/new/home/slingair.htm is a 404 document not found. 
wmode works in the windows version of the flash plugin, so resolving this bug as
a dup of bug 137189 according to comment 3.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 137189 ***