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

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:25:46 -0500
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> > For example, I just checked si.com and saw this happen.  
> What exactly happened? It looked ok to me.

Well, you have to have the flash plugin installed and active :-).

Then, when I was at the site, there was a picture that changes
around to point to different stores (the flash content) and
above it mouse-over menu items like "MLB". If I mouse over MLB,
there is a pulldown menu that (with flash active) shows up under
the flash content, so it is invisible.

If you disable flash and visit the site again, there is just a
blank spot where the flash normally goes, and if you mouse over
things like MLB, the menus show up.

Many versions of this same problem are reported in the firefox
bugzilla (z-order is one good term to search for).