292909 - dfi.com.tw - missing |wmode="transparent"| on flash <embed> (flash overlaps menus)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Other, defect)

Description

[Jim Therien]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

When displaying the DFI US Web Site
http://www.dfi.com.tw/index_us_noflash.jsp?SITE=NA the Macromedia Flash overlays
the menu items.  This does not happen when displaying with IE.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.http://www.dfi.com.tw/index_us_noflash.jsp?SITE=NA
2.Try to select the menu "Where to Buy"
3.The menu displays in back of the flash.

Actual Results:  
Menu displayed, but it was hidden behind the Macromedia Flash.  When doing the
same with IE, the Flash was in the background and the menus overlayed it.

Expected Results:  
Menu items should display on top of the Macromedia Flash.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

The problem is that while the site uses the wmode parameter on the <object>, it
doesn't do so on the <embed>, which is what Mozilla uses. They therefore need to
add | wmode="transparent"| to their tag for it to work correctly. This is not a
bug in Firefox.

Comment 2

[Omar Medani]

(In reply to comment #1)
> The problem is that while the site uses the wmode parameter on the <object>, it
> doesn't do so on the <embed>, which is what Mozilla uses. They therefore need to
> add | wmode="transparent"| to their tag for it to work correctly. This is not a
> bug in Firefox.

This definetly is a bug, because putting wmode="transparent" into both the object- and the embed-tag doesn't change anything.

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

I see no overlap on that page in either Camino trunk, Firefox 2, or Safari 3 with Flash 9.0r124. Whatever the problem was, it WORKSFORME now. (They still haven't added wmode="transparent" to the <embed> tag, for what it's worth.)