[thelist] flash list like this (is: Bangkok site)

[John Dowdell]

For what it's worth, I did read your description last week, but I wasn't 
sure of the core issue... seemed like the general situation was "What 
types of HTML elements can influence whether various browsers reclaim 
the cursor after rolling off an EMBED object?", and I didn't have the 
time then to go through your client's HTML to see how it differed from 
yours, and I wasn't sure from the text whether it was a some-but-not-all 
browser issue as well.

I didn't know that I'd be sent to a site about user stories from 
Thailand, I hope my employers are not monitoring my computer today.... ;-)

In current Firefox/Win I not only don't see a cursor change over their 
SWF, I can't click through to the link either. I've just been running 
through that document with Firefox's Web Developer toolbar trying to get 
a quick idea of its construction, but its "Display Element Information" 
overlay seems to be having trouble with a TABLE of that length.

... whoa, I think I may see it, surrounding your friend's OBJECT/EMBED 
tags they've put an ANCHOR tag. This is strange, because the OBJECT tag 
doesn't take such an external link as a chunk of text would. If they 
remove that, then does the problem go away?

If that's not the key difference between their document and yours, then 
the usual path is to simplify the misbehaving content one layer at a 
time until it acts normally again. I'd offer to do it, but I can't right 
now.

(By the way, on mailing lists in general, the chances of a useful reply 
are increased if there's an answerable "how" or "what" question on 
something *other* people can make themselves... the "why" or "why not" 
questions on something big they haven't made don't tend to pull as well, 
I've found.)

Summary: Looks like an HTML difference, with one big candidate lined up 
for testing. The SWF is the same, the browser the same, but its 
environment is what differs.....

jd