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Subject: THANKS! Re: FLASH: Movie Transparency
From: Alan Prather
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 06:39:25 GMT

All I can say is WOW.
My problem still remains, but I know so much now about why transparency
can't be done in Netscape it's sick....
I really apreciate the help Nigel, John, et al.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Croteau <croteauaterols [dot] com>
To: flasheratshocker [dot] com <flasheratshocker [dot] com>
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: FLASH: Movie Transparency


>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.
>
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