Problem with dynamically displayed movies in Firefox

[rstackhouse]

Howdy all,

I am using the DHTML tool S5, http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/, and whenever I embed a flash movie in a dynamically displayed

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<li> tag for some reason, the movie seems to render beneath its parent element.

Here is the url for the demo I'm making: http://cg.tamu.edu/flash_animation/flash_animation.html

In Firefox, if you go to the 7th slide into the presentation (you can advance slides by clicking or the down arrow), you'll notice a little black rectangle poking out at the bottom.  That is the bottom of a movie that is 780px wide and 560px high.

If you hover over the lower right portion of the window you'll see a white Ø in the corner.  This toggles between slide and print view.  In the print view, my movies show up fine.  Anyone got any ideas what might be going on here?

[Jorge Solis]

I use swfObject http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/ whitout problems in almost all browsers

Jorge

[rstackhouse]

The problem is with movies that are already loaded being hidden and then redisplayed.  I turned in a bug report to Mozilla about it.

I already tried using swfObject to get around the ActiveX deal with IE, but there was some kind of global variable name collision between swfObject and the script for the slideshow.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

I think I might try to rework the source for the slide show to get rid of the collision, and then use an array of movie names to display the appropriate one at the appropriate time.