[thelist] Unwanted flash background in Explorer 5.5 and 5.0

[Roberto Gorjão]

Olá a todos!

I’m facing a strange problem with flash… I’ve created a flash menu for 
this site and I would like to place it in a div, just over some 
alternative content that I’m going to create still. It works fine in 
Firefox, also in IE 6.0, but, in IE 5.0 and 5.5, the background black 
colour of the flash movie seems to expand itself and cover the whole 
background of the page. The problem disappears if I use the parameter 
wmode and set it to transparent… but, in that case, I wouldn’t be able 
to provide an alternative content because it would be visible right 
through my movie… Well, it just hit me that I can provide a fake 
background and solve the problem… Nevertheless, I would like to know if 
anybody knows the root of this problem and how to solve it elegantly… or 
if I’m just missing something evident.

I’ve uploaded a page which samples the problem:
http://www.oficinadoouro.com/wmodewindow.htm
I’m using Flash Object by Geoff Stearns to embed the flash movie. I also 
used the wmode parameter set to window to try to contain the movie, but 
it doesn’t work: I get the same result without it.

The CSS rules are here:
http://www.oficinadoouro.com/CSS/CSSextract.css
One thing funny though is that if we use the vertical scroll the problem 
disappears and the true background reappears. That’s why I’ve commented 
the overflow rule in the body selector - so IE 5 shows the scroll and 
you can test it.

To see how the page should render, just open it in IE 6.0, Firefox or Opera.

Obrigado pela vossa atenção!

Roberto Gorjão