Nav bar drop down menu problems
Hi Guys
I am having a couple of problems with a site I am building and I was wondering if anyone can help.
1. I have Drop Down Buttons on the top navbar created in Fireworks and on the home page there is embedded QT video, when I hover over the drop down "News" the menu appears behind the quicktime movie? Z-Index doesnt work in this case and wmode is only for Flash not QT.
2. The dropdown menus I have created for News and Results work fine and I have "prevent overlapping layers" disabled but when I try to put another drop down near any other the resulting menu appears on the top left of the screen as the layers overlaping??
any help would be appriciated.
Site : http://www.toughguy.org.uk
Graham
greg posted this at 09:56 — 28th May 2009.
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Hi Graham, welcome to TWF
I tried to have a look for you, but the top video just keeps looping, with that and the bottom one seemingly trying to load, it just crashes my browser.
Controls to stop/pause the videos would be a good thing, in fact letting the visitor press play to start it would be even better.
Shame I had no choice in leaving as it looked like interesting content...
columbo1977 posted this at 10:13 — 28th May 2009.
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Hi Greg
That is strange as when I open it at home the controls are there on both and the top one auto plays once and the bottom one is started by the user?
I wonder why that is, just tried to open them from work and it crashed the browser here as well?
Graham
greg posted this at 10:32 — 28th May 2009.
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Uploading your vids to YouTube and then using their Embed code is really simple and uses their bandwidth too. It makes vids load pretty fast and you have their control system of pause/volume etc.
Also of course people find your vids through youtube as well as your site.
The down side is it doesn't "look" quite as professional with a dirty great "YOUTUBE" sticker on the vid. That is it's not quite the same as when it's clearly hosted by your site.
But hey, when you finished weighing up the pros and cons, compromises sometimes have to be made.
columbo1977 posted this at 13:15 — 28th May 2009.
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I have converted the top one to wmv and the menus seem to work when the video isnt playing. the bottom one is still qt at the moemtn as I was trying to get it embedded as flash but the switches are not working or something??
Graham
greg posted this at 13:45 — 28th May 2009.
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It seems to work fine on its own, so the link in your code is fine
http://www.toughguy.org.uk/media/TGVideo_Nicola.mov
It plays in my browser plugin without issues
I'm not really clued up on embedded quicktime stuff, but your code seems to open an
<embed>but doesn't close it with</embed>:<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab"
height="480"
width="550">
<param name="src" value="media/TGVideo_Nicola.mov">
<param name="autoplay" value="false">
<param name="controller" value="true">
<param name="loop" value="false">
<param name="type" value="video/quicktime" >
<param name="target" value="myself" >
<embed height="480"
pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/"
src="media/TGVideo_Nicola.mov"
type="video/quicktime"
width="550"
autoplay=false
controller=true
loop=false
target="myself">
</object>
Whereas the top video you do close the embed tag just before closing the object tag.
I had to quickly get the page source to find this, as it still plays havoc with my browsers.. maybe its the open tag?
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA26485?viewlocale=en_US
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