Re: FLASH: Movie Transparency

[John Croteau]

Hi Nigel,


> The question of movie transparency has come up several times on this

> list. This arises from the fact that I.E. type browsers support the

> wmode parameter but Netscape type browsers do not, so as would be normal

> people try to get the same effect working in Netscape.

Actually Netscape 4 was supposed to support this feature but MM,

Netscape and others have not been able to create plugins that would work

reliably using transparency and the other DHTML features.

If you look at MM's DHTML site

http://www.dhtmlzone.com/swdhtml/main.html

you will see "Netscape Communicator versions are on their way." This was

posted sometime late in 1997. So it is one thing we know MM is aware of

and wants to change so there is probably no need to send requests for

this to the wishlist since this is a feature that is only waiting on a

technical solution.


It's possible that pertinent code was changed in the final release of

Netscape 4.5 so I hope someone is rechecking (or will recheck) the DHTML

plugin situation with Netscape 4.5.


> Replies to this type of question have stated that you can set your

> background to a colour with an alpha effect and this will somehow work.

> This is not true.

Repeat DHTML layer transparency only works with MSIE 4 Win 95/98/NT and

does NOT work with any other version of MSIE and it does NOT work with

any version of Netscape.


-----------                               -----------------------

John Croteau

croteauerols [dot] com (mailto:croteauerols [dot] com)

-------------                             -------------------------

FlashTek  (Advanced Websites with Flash) http://www.FlashTek.com/

Flash Central(The Universe Starts Here) http://www.FlashCentral.com/

The Flash Tech Resource (Tech Notes)   http://www.FlashCentral.com/tech/

Need a PC ?  --  Computer King  --   

http://www.crownmall.com/computers/

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


------------------------------------------------------------------------

To UNSUBSCRIBE send: unsubscribe flasher in the body of an

email to

list-managershocker [dot] com

.  Problems to:

ownershocker [dot] com

N.B. Email address must be the same as the one you used to subscribe.

For info on digest mode send: info flasher to

list-managershocker [dot] com