Aug
23
2004Web design myth debunked
23
2004
For a long time now, it’s been “common knowledge” in web design that you can’t put DHTML layers (well, “divs”) in front of Flash content. This has been a thorn in the side of many designers, because two very common layout elements on a corporate homepage are 1.) A horizonal menu with DHTML dropdown menus and 2.) A big chunk of introductory Flash “above the fold”.
It turns out that this “common knowledge” is actually (at least as of a couple years ago) a complete myth. All it takes is two tiny chunks of code to make pretty much any modern web browser display the menu and Flash animation as desired.
Learn all about it here, and see it in action on the Groove.net home page.
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I’m using Firefox v0.8 on Mac OS 10.3.5. On Groove.net the pull down menus do display over the Flash just fine… but go to click on one of the choices and the menu dissappears… most of the time.
kap 8/23/04 @ 11:08 pm