Flash Sitting on top of .html

Question

Hello - I have seen on the front page of Yahoo - on their
advertising section on the right of the page flash movies that when
you mouse over them they spread over to take up a large section
sitting over .html of the page. How is this done? I did a search
for "flash on top of html" - but nothing came up, so I hope I am
not asking a redundent question - if I am I apologize.
Thanks - Eric

Answer 1

eLoCas wrote:
> Hello - I have seen on the front page of Yahoo - on
their advertising section
> on the right of the page flash movies that when you
mouse over them they spread
> over to take up a large section sitting over .html of
the page. How is this
> done? I did a search for "flash on top of html" - but
nothing came up, so I
> hope I am not asking a redundent question - if I am I
apologize.
The effect you describe it done with Layers which are quite
easy if you familiar with Dreamweaver.
Let me elaborate.
You can not get beyond flash to animate beyond the canvas
boundaries (the movie size defined in your
object embed tags). These are movies that are actually with
transparent background, using WMODE parameter
to achieve that, it makes them appear like they fly all over
the HTML document while they actually just
large movies with no background. Another way to do it, is to
use Wmode and animate the layer itself
rather then making a huge movie canvas to cover the space
WMODE however is known to cause problems, from crashing
browsers to disabling actions ,screwing up buttons
etc... So be aware of it, if suddenly some of the features
stop working, you know what's the reason behind
it. That's why it's commonly use for ads only, minimum user
interaction.
Best Regards
Urami
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