Transparency in Flash

You may have seen several large websites (Yahoo, for example) posting new flash pieces on their homepages. They also seem to be taking them down rather quickly though so there may be some bugs associated wth this, but I'm not sure yet.

The new thing about these pieces is that you can achieve a full alpha channel on the object tag. This means you can incorporate flash objects into any part of the page without the square bounding box. You can control the object with with normal DHTML functionality or use the existing Flash functionality over the regular HTML.

The best thing about this is that it's really, really, easy. All it takes is one parameter replaced in the object tag. <param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> instead of the normal background-color parameter.

As far as I know, this only works in Internet Explorer 5 and 6 on PC.

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The text underneath the flash object is normal HTML text.