Spry Navbar Dropdown Under swf file image

I've built an intranet page that works fine in IE but not in
Netscape and Firefox. The spry horizontal drop down falls under the
swf file in Netscape and Firefox, making the drop down items
inaccessible. I've put z-indexes on the navbar, flash component and
the frame around the flash piece. The navbar only falls under the
flash component.
Any suggestions? Thanks.

It's not a z-index issue.
All Active content on a page will always rise to the top, so
to speak,
including Flash, certain form elements, Java applets, and
Active X controls.
This means that each of these will poke through layers. There
is not a good
cross-browser/platform reliable way to solve this issue, but
if you can be
confident in your visitors using IE 5+ or NN6+, then you can
use the Flash
wmode parameter (however, Safari does not support this
properly!).
PVII article:
http://www.projectseven.com/support/answers.asp?id=127
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> I've built an intranet page that works fine in IE but
not in Netscape and
> Firefox. The spry horizontal drop down falls under the
swf file in
> Netscape
> and Firefox, making the drop down items inaccessible.
I've put z-indexes
> on
> the navbar, flash component and the frame around the
flash piece. The
> navbar
> only falls under the flash component.
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks.
>

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GACUTIL wrote:
> Hi. I'm not a Flash developer, so please excuse this
question if it is
> sophomoric. Someone created a .swf file for my site that
transitions multiple
> images in & out. It can be seen here:
http://www.shadyladylighting.com.
>
> The problem is the images seem to abruptly move/jump as
they are in
> transition. It's almost as if they jump quickly before
they change. You have
> to look close to see it, but it's very annoying once you
see it happening.
>
> Can anyone tell me what the problem is and how it should
be fixed? Although I
> can't fix it I must hire someone to do so, and basically
I want to know what
> the problem is before I pay someone to fix it.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>

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