Vikash Gounder

One of my former workmates and good friend Marijke Wilhelmus had a problem with a flash file and a drop-down menu. Okay here is a problem, the website she was working on a drop-down menu and below that was a flash file, on IE the drop-down menu seems to work fine without any overlapping. On Firefox, the flash file would overlap the drop-down menu. The original HTML flash code:

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<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="570" height="200" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="quality" value="high" />
         <param name="LOOP" value="false" />
         <param name="src" value="someflash.swf" />
         <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="570" height="200" src="someflash.swf" loop="false" quality="high"></embed>
</object>

I surfed on Google, found few solutions and recommendation, most didn’t seem to work. The solution is within the flash embedding code rather than the layout. The original html code was missing the

which actually helps and makes the drop-down menu/flash file behave the way we want. With some small tweaking, here it is:

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<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="570" height="200" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0">
	<param name="quality" value="high" />
	<param name="LOOP" value="false" />
	<param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
	<param name="src" value="someflash.swf" />
	<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="570" height="200" src="someflash.swf" wmode="opaque" loop="false" quality="high"></embed>
</object>

And another factor to note is the order which always is a problem, but with most older browsers it may be a problem. Seems to work fine on IE/Firefox/Safari.

Below is the Before:

This is after the tweaking:

After couple of years of not having a Cyclone in Fiji, a low depression turned into a cyclone on Monday mid-day FJ time and was named Cyclone Gene by the Fiji Meteorological Service as category 1 which later turned into a category 2. Cyclone Gene brought Fiji to grinding halt as most of the essential services was shutdown, surprisingly the telecom services @ my residence was working fine.

Most of the residence in Fiji were without water and electricity. With the current stride, the cyclone is moving away from Fiji towards Vanuatu. Open Cyclone path picture in a new window (Courtesy of MED)

Reports are also surfacing of flood waters rising in Rewa River to the result of heavy rain in the eastern side of Viti Levu.

More latest updates on Cyclone Gene can be found on the following websites:

• www.met.gov.fj
• www.fijitimes.com.fj