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I've been working on a set of dropdown menus that will expand over a flash element. They work as expected in all flavors of mozilla and ie in Windows. But in safari they get all funky and stuff. It seems like the flash is hovering over the menus or something.
Has anyone seen anything like this in safari? and found a solution to the problem?
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Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Cristian Z.
The only browser I think you could expect these to work with is IE Windows. Flash objects act sort of like iframes on a page in terms of drop menus, they are a virtual separate window, you can't count on any browser letting you pop something over it.
What OS were you running?..
I tested on Mozilla 1.0, result, pushes down flash object, Firebird 0.7 = mozilla 1.5, firefox 0.8, doesn't go over flash. Opera 7 doesn't work at all, not surprising with css menus.
On a slower pc, the css drop menu flash down the screen unformatted as page loads, looks very bad, this is the second time I've seen somebody trying to use css menus commercially, it's a bad idea, they don't work at a commercial level, they just aren't stable enough. Also, even on IE 6 on a slower pc, the menu action is super sluggish, as is the mouseover action on the actual drop menu itself.
Page rendering on Opera 6 is a complete failure.
As far as I know there is no way to safely put a drop menu over a flash object cross browser and cross os, if there is maybe somebody can post the method.
