Safari WIndows and Transparent Flash

Question

Hi folks,

// Edit: The issue now appears to be confined to Safari for Windows.

Around the time Safari for Windows 4 came out I started hearing from users that wmode=transparent was no longer working in Safari.

I have googled this many times but have not come up with any answers. I have tried reducing interference by using tags as opposed to scripts to embed the Flash but with no success.

An example is here: http://hiv411.org/safari.php alternately embedded with scrip at http://hiv411.org/

All videos use wmode=transparent and are embedded via tags. All work fine in every browser I have except Safari.

Code looks like so on safari.php

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" name="test" width="289" height="263" align="middle" id="test">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" />
<param name="movie" value="swfs/BBattLeft.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
</object>

Much obliged for any help!

JG

Answer 1

I have the same problem with Safari for Windows. But after I've updated my Flash Player to version 10.0.45.2, the problem is gone. So I think it's a Flash player bug.