I wanted to use a lightbox on a site I am building for one of my clients but when i check the site on a pc, the animated flash gifs on my main page show in front of the lightbox. I having taken the lightbox off currently and am using a popup window instead but please click the link below to view the page the gifs live on.
You could try setting wmode=transparent on your Flash elements, or you
could try getting rid of the Flash and using actual animated GIF
images instead. Those will have the added benefit of working on iPads
and many smartphones, too.
Walter
On Feb 10, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Fran Gibson wrote:
I wanted to use a lightbox on a site I am building for one of my
clients but when i check the site on a pc, the animated flash gifs
on my main page show in front of the lightbox. I having taken the
lightbox off currently and am using a popup window instead but
please click the link below to view the page the gifs live on.
Hi Fran,
I agree with Walter in that you’d be best to use animated GIFs on this page rather than your SWF elements. Although the animations are tiny (1.5k for the phone number animation for example) users without Flash enabled browsers (iOS devices for example) won’t see the content. This could be a problem for contact phone numbers and other important information.
I’ve created a simple animated GIF based on your phone number animation SWF and although it is roughly 12k and a lot larger than the original SWF it should play quite happily on almost all browsers. You can view and download the animation here; http://www.freewayactions.com/test/ewa/gif/phone-anim.gif
Unfortunately Easy Web Animator (which I’m assuming you used to create these SWFs based on the button graphic you’ve used) doesn’t have a direct export to GIF option which is a shame as you’d need to do this the long way - export to SWF, capture the SWF as a movie, export this to a set of static frames, and then build the GIF from there. It doesn’t take too long but it can be boring to do.
Incidentally if anyone knows of any SWF to GIF converters (ideally for the Mac) then I’d love to hear about them.
Regards,
Tim.
On 10 Feb 2011, at 20:57, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
You could try setting wmode=transparent on your Flash elements, or you could try getting rid of the Flash and using actual animated GIF images instead. Those will have the added benefit of working on iPads and many smartphones, too