Re: Firefox, flash, web page: Who's fault?

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 16:40 +0000, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I've been noticing this a lot lately, and I wonder where to point the finger:
> 
> A web page will have a row of mouse-over menus. That row will be located
> on the page over an area with flash content.
> 
> If I mouse over the menu, the menu gets drawn underneath the $# ! flash
> content.
> 
> For example, I just checked si.com and saw this happen.
What exactly happened? It looked ok to me.
> 
> Is firefox screwing up the window stacking order? Is flash screwing up
> the window stacking order? Are web page designers ignoring something
> they are supposed to specify? I don't even know who to blame :-).
> 
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