January 2008
3 posts
Swfobject is only the messenger
In my previous post I thought that swfobject was causing the wmode=transparent problem in IE. However, I was wrong. Folkert told me that swfobject only passes the parameter to the Flash Player, swfobject is only the messenger.
Instead of wmode=transparent I also tried wmode=opaque as Jorrit suggested, but it didn’t make a difference. I set up three wmode sample pages to test the issue:
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Flash trouble caused by SWFObject
Last week we accidentally introduced a nasty bug into the Floorplanner Flash app. Well, actually it wasn’t the Flash app that caused the problem. It appeared to be a weird issue in swfobject.
We wanted to layer some html content over the Flash app, so we added this line to the JavaScript:
swfObject.addParam( "wmode", "transparent" );
By doing that, the Flash app started acting really...
Installing Apache2 & PHP5 on OS X
I found this great tutorial on how to install Apache2 and PHP5 on OSX.
Thanks a lot Maccius!
By the way, if you just want to use the Apache and PHP versions that come with OSX, read this post.
