IE8 Issue With Embedded YouTube Videos

[Technoir Design]

Hi,
firstly, apologies if this has been dealt with by another thread - if so, please re-direct me accordingly. I can't believe that I would be the first person to raise this...

I have a problem with embedded YouTube videos when viewed within IE8 - they remain 'on top' of both pop-up windows and drop-down menus. Example screen shots are attached..

Is this a generic IE8 problem or something I'm doing wrong? No such issue with Firefox though (how typical...).

I haven't tried yet but I also wondered whether using an embedded video player and uploading the video to my server instead of YouTube might solve it...

I have also noted that the drop-down menus are a bit erratic in IE8 and as per another thread have tried 'compatibility mode' to resolve it. It's better but not perfect..

Thanks in advance & Best Regards

TD

[MediaGuy]

Just a guess here but that it appears by the pictures like a Z-INDEX order issue? I don't know if Xara's Layers of bringing them forward or backward in designing as in navigation always on top will address this or not.

[bb2]

Hi

im not seeing the problem with the drop down menus when testing but do see this behaviour with the popup photos.

Out of interest, what revision of Web Designer 6 are you using? (select help followed by about xara web designer)

I worked around the problem by applying wmode trick to the code provided by YouTube.

Add the following parameter to the OBJECT tag:
<param name="wmode" value=""transparent" />

Add the following parameter to the EMBED tag:

wmode="transparent"

This allowed the popup image to appear above the YouTube video

Hope this helps

[Technoir Design]

Hi Mediaguy & bb2,
very many thanks for your suggestions, you managed to solve one problem each!

Mediaguy,
once I applied all screen elements to a single layer and brought the Nav Bar to the top of that layer, menu is displayed successfully over the embedded video. Strange how Firefox doesn't display any such behavioural problems - even when I had the video in a different layer above that which contained the NavBar... Ho Hum.

bb2,
I tried the wmode trick and that worked perfectly with the pop-ups. What a shame that this has to be done manually for each and every video - I have quite a few to deal with... Just happy to be able to fix it!

I wondered whether the same ordering issue that solved the menu problem might also influence the Pop-ups too. I haven't experimented yet but will report back if I get any positive results.

Many thanks to you both for your assistance. You guys are totally excellent!


Best Regards

TD

[MediaGuy]

Glad to have helped on half of the solution


Cheers