LukeD — Tue, 02 Oct 2001 11:44:17 +0000

Believe me I know that! But I do not work for the US Gov but the Canadian Gov. Our sites has 2 types of navigation. The Graphical one (where I would use the DHTML) and the text one at the bottom. I also studied the traffic stats and found out that .002% of the traffic doesn't support DHTML. As for Flash, I would use in a controlled environment, like an Intranet.

Government Standards?

pbaugher — Mon, 01 Oct 2001 19:26:07 +0000

If your designing to US Government Standards, you shouldn't be considering Flash, or DHTML at all. In fact the site must be standard HTML, and should be read by ALL browsers including the ones blind/handicapped people use. There are legal issues abound in anything government, and some cases I've read about various groups suing the government for using any technologies on the internet that can not be read by everyone. I think I read somewhere that congress even passed a bill making most sites on the internet open to litigation should someone decide to sue... while most companies still aren't going to to comply with the strict government standards, anything done by the govenrment, must. I always thought the state and federal sites sucked, but now I know why. The governmaent must make it's sites as accessable as possible, because if they don't, someone could claim they prevented them from inforamtiom... which for one violates the freedom of informaion act.

LukeD — Mon, 01 Oct 2001 11:42:42 +0000

Thanks for the reply! Not necessarily what I wanted to hear but not much we can do!!

But I finally came up with a solution for IE. But I can't seem to work around the problem in NS.

Anyways, forgot about the idea, I can't really change the page layout since I'm designing with strict Government Standards.

It's not possible

pbaugher — Sat, 29 Sep 2001 22:30:32 +0000

DHTML has problems layering objects such as flash, Java, and some form elements like drop downs etc... The problem exists across the boards... IE and NS.

You could try using a transparrent .swf ... but anything inside the Flash movie will overlap the DHTML. It's always on top.

-pb

Vincent Puglia — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:18:13 +0000

Hi,

Other than leaving 'white space' between the menu & movie, nope no idea. I don't flash, but I believe flash tends to ignore any zIndex commands. Make the movie smaller.

Vinny