271148 - gainesville.com - Macromedia Flash window covers up text on page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Rick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0

When viewing this page, the macromedia flash covers up portions of the text on
the web page.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to
http://gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041121/LOCAL/41121008/1078
2. Page does not display properly


Actual Results:  
Page displays but does not render properly. This page does not display properly
on my linux pc, but it looks ok on my wife's G5 using firefox or safari. 

Expected Results:  
It looks like the flash window is two to three times larger than needed. The
oversizing causes it to cover up the text on the web page.

I have a screenshot if you need it.

Comment 1

[Steffen Wilberg]

Maybe it's because of the 140 errors on their page?
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041121/LOCAL/41121008/1078

Comment 2

[Daniel Wang]

worksforme. screenshot please?

Comment 3

[Mario Medina]

I can confirm that macromedia flash player 7 on linux doesn't respect the zindex. It puts over all other stuff in the page, including layers, divs, text, and whatever.

In konqueror it doesn't happens.

Comment 4

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Is this Linux-specific? The original URL is 404 so it no longer works as a testcase. WORKSFORME unless someone can provide a new URL.