menu conflict using Netscape and Flash

drussell · Post by **drussell** » Thu May 12, 2005 7:26 pm

Using Netscape (any version), with a homepage that contains flash, the dropdown menu displays behind the flash. We've tried the wmode =transparent setting with no success.

All versions of IE are fine. It's specific to netscape.

Has anyone else experienced this behavior? Solutions?

chrisinoz · Post by **chrisinoz** » Sat May 14, 2005 7:52 am

Hi

I don't have an answer. I am asking if you have found a solution.

I have a client who wants flash and a menu that will drop down into the Flash.

Thanks

Chris

Post by **John** » Sat May 14, 2005 6:09 pm

Add fixMozillaZIndex=true; to the top of your _data file. This is a global, so it needs to go up there. Also make sure you're running the latest version (5.723 as of this posting).

chrisinoz · Post by **chrisinoz** » Sun May 15, 2005 6:53 am

Thanks John for the quick reply. I shall implement in .

Thanks

Chris

kevin3442 · Post by **kevin3442** » Tue May 17, 2005 12:29 am

A word of warning:

Using fixMozillaZIndex=true; still seems to set all of the menus to fixed positioning, including any "main" menus (with alwaysvisible=1). The result will be that, if your page can be scrolled vertically, then the menu will appear to follow the scroll (with it's position fixed in the window), rather than staying where you put it.

Refer to this topic for more.

Because of this, a better interim solution might be to set position="fixed"; in each of the submenus that could overlap the flash. That should allow the affected submenus to sit on top of the flash, but it won't affect the main menu's positioning.

Hope that helps,

Kevin

chrisinoz · Post by **chrisinoz** » Tue May 17, 2005 12:37 am

Hi Kevin

Thanks for that.

I will investigate that. Funnily enough the client site has no scrolling vertically in it as he wants me to use iframe through most of the pages.

Cheers

Chris

kevin3442 · Post by **kevin3442** » Tue May 17, 2005 1:13 am

If you're sure that there will be no vertical scrolling, regardless of the site visitor's screen resolution, then I'd go with the fixMozillaZIndex solution, since it would be easier to implement.

Cheers,

Kevin

chrisinoz · Post by **chrisinoz** » Tue May 17, 2005 1:19 am

That makes sense Kevin.

Here is a test page and in 800 x 600 there is no vertical scrolling - designed for 1024

http://www.esimplified.net/flash/about_ ... rental.php

No flash implemented yet

Cheers

kevin3442 · Post by **kevin3442** » Tue May 17, 2005 1:33 am

Hi Chris,

Looks good to me at 800x600. But (heaven forbid) you will have a vertical scroll bar at 640x480.

I find Mike Lin's "WindowSizer" useful for testing different browser window sizes. You can download it for free form his site. It's been around awhile, but still works nicely. I also use this one from time to time, if I'm going to test lots of different windows at lots of different resolutions.

Cheers,

Kevin

chrisinoz · Post by **chrisinoz** » Tue May 17, 2005 2:05 am

I used to have a window sizer but I always check in 1024 and 800. I have downloaded the first one you suggested.

I know that in 640 it would give a problem but according to stats 640x800 is 1% of browser uses now

http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat_trends.htm

I will probably state best viewed at 1024 resolutions.

If complaints come through I shall relook at changing code - wouldn't take me long anyway.

Cheers

Chris