Flash and HTML layers: still a problem
Posted: January 7th, 2009 | Author: msh | Filed under: The Craft | Tags: bugs, design, flash, informationarchitecture, jquery | 2 Comments »Update, April 2009: Change.gov seems to have changed their video player size, so the working example in this entry no longer has a strict correlation between the video player and the image replacement. The principle still holds, though, and it would be an easy fix to create a new replacement image using the naming conventions below. — msh
Happy 2009! OK, back to work.
Note to developers and designers: you still can’t layer HTML over Flash, and you still need to design around it. Sad, but true. For instance, this page on change.gov has the classic problem: a Flash video player at the top of the page, and a menu that draws a layer on rollover. The two are not friends.
