To start with, we iterate through all the flash elements - Object tag for IE and Embed to everything else. For flash elements that are opened with wmode="window", we redraw the element with a wmode="opaque". This is done to allow other HTML elements to be drawn on top the element.
Transparent Divs are drawn over flash elements. Click handlers are added to the divs that recreate the flash elements on an "position=absolute" div. This div can be resized and moved (with the YUI resize component). The flash elements with a 100% width and height resize with the div.
There are only a few caveats.
- Shockwave Flash still appears on top of all HTML elements
- Certain flash files do not scale and are fixed. Hence, resizeing the flash does not scale the contents, it just expands the element. Now working on ways to fix this.
