opensoul.org - Firefox + Mac + Flash + CSS opacity = peek-a-boo Comments

Comment on 'Firefox + Mac + Flash + CSS opacity = peek-a-boo' by Hungary

2009-12-27T11:42:23Z

An interesting solution to that problem! Rather original buy frankly speaking I don’t have such troubles when using Mozilla.

Comment on 'Firefox + Mac + Flash + CSS opacity = peek-a-boo' by Tison

2009-06-04T20:45:22Z

If anyone is using thickbox, on a mac with firefox:

Thickbox 3.1 has addressed this issue and it is fixed in the code. HOWEVER, don’t forget to download (and properly link up) the png image that is referenced within the thickbox stylesheet!

Get the png here: http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/thickbox-code/macFFBgHack.png

Comment on 'Firefox + Mac + Flash + CSS opacity = peek-a-boo' by Arpita

2009-02-17T07:41:34Z

Hi All,

I am facing issue in Mac safari browser.

I made this flash and the background is following mouse. http://www.designurimagination.com/Projects/russia/russia-new2.html

It is fine in all browsers but when i see it in MAC+safari it has error. The moment you click outside browser and come back to the browser thebackground disappear. I tried all the solution I know till date.

Can anyone help me understand the real problem? Please let me know the solution.

thanks Arpita

Comment on 'Firefox + Mac + Flash + CSS opacity = peek-a-boo' by iGuide

2009-01-16T16:41:09Z

Hm, this is a frustrating one to fix, because its either all-or-none for browsers. One solution is to use PNG-24’s to create the opacity, and then use conditional comments for IE6 which doesn’t understand PNG-24 opacity. There are 2 possible IE6 fixes, either using MS background image filters, or doing it without the PNG and adding a MS opacity filter.

Comment on 'Firefox + Mac + Flash + CSS opacity = peek-a-boo' by Chris

2007-12-19T15:12:48Z

Possible solution to this problem is to server different CSS for the audience viewing the website on MAC (FF and Camino)

Its cumbersome but atleast Users wont suffer.

Comment on 'Firefox + Mac + Flash + CSS opacity = peek-a-boo' by Liam Egan

2007-12-17T20:44:20Z

I ran into this problem today with a website I’m producing. Interestingly, Safari on OSX Leopard seems to exhibit similar buggy behavior while Safari 2 and 3, pre Leopard are fine. I’m going to have to say that it’s more a bug with the flash plugin (perhaps in it’s interaction with cocoa) than it is with the browsers in particular.

Comment on 'Firefox + Mac + Flash + CSS opacity = peek-a-boo' by Zach Dennis

2007-10-26T17:45:40Z

I just hit this today. Thanks for posting! ;)

Comment on 'Firefox + Mac + Flash + CSS opacity = peek-a-boo' by SympathaticSock

2007-08-14T19:30:40Z

I cant use a png because the site I’m working on has 2 flash objects on top of each other. they fade in and out by adjusting the opacity with javascript. They only solution I found is removing the type property from the embedded object.

FF will still fade, and in safari at least the object won’t disappear as it does when you do have

type=”application/x-shockwave-flash”

in the embed tag. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC ”-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd”> Safari Flash & Opacity test click here

This text will fade but the swf will disappear in safari, not in FF
removing “type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” will stop it from disappearing
and FF can still fade it (removing wmode=”opaque” also stops it, but then it wont fade in FF either anymore).

Comment on 'Firefox + Mac + Flash + CSS opacity = peek-a-boo' by Lalit Shandilya

2007-04-27T05:52:24Z

I had similar experience working with Firefox on Mac; using Thickbox to showcase Flash Videos inside an Ajax window, because of CSS opacity.

Then I came across Jake Olsen post on CSS Opacity and Flash Transparency in Mac Firefox

He recommends using transparent png for Firefox Mac instead of CSS opacity. It worked for me.

Comment on 'Firefox + Mac + Flash + CSS opacity = peek-a-boo' by Matt King

2007-04-26T16:52:02Z

I experienced this myself. The site was fine with transparent menus until they wanted to have headlines replaced in-line with Flash headlines. In Firefox on Mac it completely trashes the headlines. But the client wanted the Flash headlines and transparent menus, so they decided to let those Mac people on Firefox suffer. I like it when clients are flexible like that!

Comment on 'Firefox + Mac + Flash + CSS opacity = peek-a-boo' by Brandon

2007-04-26T14:37:42Z

Good point. Camino does the same thing as Firefox, so maybe my theory is wrong and it’s just a bug.

Comment on 'Firefox + Mac + Flash + CSS opacity = peek-a-boo' by Slack

2007-04-26T14:21:55Z

Interesting. Did you check it in camino?