WMODE fix for Safari

My problem is that I have some suckerfish dropdown menus over
a flash element in my site. As most of us know, using some z-index
trickery and wmode-transparent takes care of the dropdown always
showing up on top of the flash element in most browsers. Except
Safari, because of an admitted bug in the browser, Safari can't
render wmode correctly.
I searched high and low for a solution and one day came
across a small script in your .htaccess file that tells Safari to
render the wmode correctly. I plopped it into the site and it fixed
the issue. My .htaccess file was written over by someone else and
now I can't for the life of me find that script again. Does anybody
know where I could find that, or what the solution would be?
Thank you,
Ben

ben777 wrote:
> My problem is that I have some suckerfish dropdown menus
over a flash element
> in my site. As most of us know, using some z-index
trickery and
> wmode-transparent takes care of the dropdown always
showing up on top of the
> flash element in most browsers. Except Safari, because
of an admitted bug in
> the browser, Safari can't render wmode correctly.
> I searched high and low for a solution and one day came
across a small script
> in your .htaccess file that tells Safari to render the
wmode correctly. I
> plopped it into the site and it fixed the issue. My
.htaccess file was written
> over by someone else and now I can't for the life of me
find that script again.
> Does anybody know where I could find that, or what the
solution would be?
Hi there Ben
I'm afraid you confused something, the htaccess has not much
to do with the Wmode
and it can't control nor influence such options, it is for
configuration changes per
directory . Wmode is strictly browser option/feature, some
simply supports while other
not and that's beyond Fixable.
Safari 1.0 did not support wmode at all if I'm not wrong, the
newer version perhaps.
Best Regards
Urami
<urami>
If you want to mail me - DO NOT LAUGH AT MY ADDRESS
</urami>

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EXPLANATION
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