Flash in the z-index layer?

[manga101]

have u guys enter a website and all of a sudden see a car races across the screen, or a cartoon play ontop of the index.html?

i know its flash cuz i right click it.and it saids flash player..etc....

after its animation.. it closes itself...

i tried looking at the source code on that page..but cant find it..


anyone know how it is achieved?


DHTML? JS?

[chrismiceli]

i don't know flash but they could put the flash code in another window and do something like this

body onLoad="test()"


function test() {
window.open("flashsourcesite.com", "flash" "border=0, toolbar=no, scrollbars=no, location=no, menubar=no");

and on the flashsourcesite.com page you put this in the

body onLoad="test0(){
setTimeout("this.close", 39000); //time of flash animation
}

[manga101]

could it be at random??

cuz there is no onLoad on the body tag... and the flash is different several times..

thinkt they might do some random somewhere..

[manga101]

yahoo.com use to do this..but now they took it off..

[nevub]

The animations you speak of are just the Flash OBJECT tag wrapped in a DIV. Inside of the object tag you set <param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> which causes the flash movie to be transparent allowing you to see and interact with the HTML underneath it. This is only possible in IE.

After the animation has played, a function is called from Flash to hide the DIV.

[manga101]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

ok
cool

[Roy Sinclair]

Originally posted by manga101
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

ok
cool

Not cool at all, it was advertisements like that which caused me to remove the Flash player from my system. I don't need that kind of annoying distraction when I'm surfing.

[manga101]

ya its annoying..

but i just wanted to know how they did it from a coding perspective..