377054 - Expandable flash animation disables all interactive components underneath.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 102695

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[Berke Rahmi Baydu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

Whenever an expandable flash animation is placed on the webpage, all controls under the area of expanded animation are disabled even if the animation is minimized. An example can be seen at the sample site. There is a flash ad on the right most corner of the page which expands then clicked. Even when the ad is condensed, the links on the right top corner are not usable. The code of that animation on the corner is as below:

<script language="JavaScript1.1" src="/js/browser_detect.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<div>
<div id="anasayfa_adcorner" style="z-index: 900000; position: absolute; left: 80px; top: 20px;"><div id="DOL_wv">
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" height="450" width="500">
<param name="movie" value="http://adimages.cnnturk.com.tr/407_adCorner_cnnturk_30_30.swf?clickTAG=http://ad.e-kolay.net/redir.a2?ciid=29670%26tid=2899%26URL=http://www.peugeot.com.tr/web/sub/407Executive/index8%2Ephp">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
<embed style="position: absolute; top: 4px; left: 300px; z-index: 800;" src="http://adimages.cnnturk.com.tr/407_adCorner_cnnturk_30_30.swf?clickTAG=http://ad.e-kolay.net/redir.a2?ciid=29670%26tid=2899%26URL=http://www.peugeot.com.tr/web/sub/407Executive/index8%2Ephp" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="450" width="500">
</object></div>
</div>
</div>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open the page
2.Expand the ad
3.Close the ad by clicking "Kapat"
4.Try to click the links on the right top area of the page including "Diger Haberler" section.
Actual Results:  
The links don't work.

Expected Results:  
Links should be clickable. They are clickable with IE.

There is another defect about flash menu's. Also when there is a flash menu on the page, the menu may go under another division when tried to view. This may be because of a similar defect.

These are the only reasons I need to use IE instead, cause they do not occur with IE.

Comment 1

[George]

This behavior is discussed in Bug 102695.

Normally sites workaround this limitation by putting the flash movie inside of a DIV that is resized it if the movie needs to change size.