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Re: flash satay firefox bug

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From: Stephanie Sullivan
Date: May 22, 2005 8:03PM

On 5/22/05 9:38 PM, "Patrick H. Lauke" simply typed the following:

> "Of course, the core issue of embedded flash stealing focus is not new,
> but the fact that satay triggers this in Firefox - when Gecko based
> browsers have, up to now, been known to simply skip flash movies when
> tabbing, which was another issue in itself - is a novel and annoying
> variation, particularly when flash is used purely for decorative effects
> rather than functional page elements."

Does the same issue apply to the FlashObject method by Geoff Stearns I
wonder? I've started to use that recently.

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