Can LAYERS be used with FLASH?

[Guest]

After creating multiple LAYERS, I inserted a FLASH file into one of the
layers and found out that any content (text or graphics) that resides either
on LAYERS above the FLASH file or on LAYERS below the FLASH file does not
appear in the browser. It's as if the FLASH doesn't let any other content
co-exist in the space it takes up. Why is this? Is there a way to deal with
this, and if so, how?

Thanks,
TS

 

[Murray]

All Active content on a page will always rise to the top, so to speak,
including Flash, certain form elements, Java applets, and Active X controls.
This means that each of these will poke through layers. There is not a good
cross-browser/platform reliable way to solve this issue, but if you can be
confident in your visitors using IE 5+ or NN6+, then you can use the Flash
wmode parameter (however, Safari does not support this properly!).

Adobe articles:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15523
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14201