Flickering + behind Flash in Mac Firefox and Safari

Poster: gplatt
Dated: Wednesday June 21 2006 - 22:49:27 BST

Greetings,

I have found that the menu is flickering and falling behind Flash objects in Mac browsers. Here is the site and menu in question:

http://www.oberlin.edu/dormenergy/talcott.htm

When a submenu opens over top the adjacent Flash object (go to 'Individual Dormitories', for example), the menu simultaneously flickers and appears partially missing below the Flash in the following browsers:

Mac Firefox 1.5.0.4 and Mac Safari 2.0.3

I have no problem with FF or IE on a PC. An important thing to note is that I have implemented automatic ActiveX activation according to Milonic and Microsoft's websites using external .js files and inserted the call for Flash in a <div>. I have also specified that wmode=transparent for Flash objects as a parameter and in the EMBED source.

Thanks for your assistance,

gplatt

Poster: John
Dated: Thursday June 22 2006 - 14:43:24 BST

Hi,

You're 5 versions down, so that must be taken care of first. Current is 5.751.

Once that's done just let us know how things stand.

Poster: gplatt
Dated: Thursday June 22 2006 - 19:14:25 BST

Latest version installed, no change.

However, before installing the latest version I was able to access the menu in a public Mac lab and it seems that the menu has no problem in Firefox on most (but not all) machines, even though they all have the same exact browsers and Flash players... strange.

But the problem definitely persists in Safari: when a submenu extends over the Flash, the menu flickers and goes behind the Flash momentarily, and when you move the mouse again to another button this happens again.

Thanks for looking into this!

gplatt

Poster: Andy
Dated: Tuesday June 27 2006 - 15:46:08 BST

It's a problem with the Safari browser.

It has been reported to Apple on MANY occasions but so far has been ignored.

We've all but given up trying to get this browser improved.

We have superb relations with Microsoft, Opera and Mozilla It's just Apple that ignore us

Poster: gplatt
Dated: Tuesday June 27 2006 - 16:01:03 BST

Haha, well, let's just hope that Apple can remedy the situation sometime soon. Thanks for your help!

-gplatt