RE: FLASH: Flash 4.0 quicktime support (now: layers)

[John Dowdell]

At 4:44 PM 9/11/98, Eric P Doggett wrote:

>Coming in on Mark's heals, has anyone had any success in layering anything

>over a flash plug-in in Netscape 4? Via layers or anything else? This one

>drives me nuts!!!


The examples on the website show how to layer normal HTML in IE4/Win32 with

the current Flash ActiveX Control, but as noted in general DHTML

conversations, browsers don't support the layering of *active* content much

yet.


Rephrased: Flash can layer with text easily in IE4/Win32, but the Netscape

plugins, and other types of content in plugins or controls, don't reliably

offer this same ability. DHTML layering is generally best suited for

simple, static HTML content. The Flash ActiveX Control is sort of a pioneer

here.



(btw, for the "embed QT" request, you can always send to the

wish-flashmacromedia [dot] com

 too. This has the advantages of reaching all the

product planners (volume on FLASHER-L is too high for all planners to read

all messages), and also the advantage of adding your request into the

database for tabulation later.

   (One thing that can help increase the weight of any request is to

provide the context for it. In this case, describing a project where you

actually need to put QT within Flash, and describing why the usual

alternative of embedding both in HTML would not suffice, would likely be a

stronger persuader than just the bare request for that change itself,

thanks... would help to edge it over other requests such as varietal

players or more interactivity or whatever.)


jd







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

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