If I recall correctly you can stack an iframe of your own over the whole page (behind the lightbox) that will stay on top of everything. In the last project I needed to work around this, I just set visibility:hidden for all flash/iframe objects in the page when firing a lightbox. Not very noticeable and has no effect on usability.
cheers, - ricardo On Feb 14, 12:38 pm, hedgomatic <hedgoma...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm working for an alt-weekly paper, and we have some animated flash > ads that come from various sources, which aren't setting the WMode of > their flash ads. > > further complicating things, our ad server backend is a shared > platform, so I can't go modifying the script that generates the object > tags. > > even /further/ complicating things, the ads display in an iframe on a > different domain, so I can't modify the object tag after the fact > (which adobe's stated doesn't work anyway, although I've seen > otherwise?) > > I'm wondering if anyone's come up with alternative solutions, like > embedding a swf in a parent div of a lightbox to force it on top of > other flash objects, etc...I'd try it, but I don't have flash :] > > My first thought was to import whatever html was needed directly into > a swf in the lightbox, but apparently flash only supports limited html > (still?!?). > > Anyone have a novel solution for this? Even if it doesn't work across > all browsers, if we can reduce the number of browsers it's a problem > for, and get our advertisers to start publishing with the "windowless" > option, it's better than where we're at now.