Embedded Flash z-Index

Recently I was working on a web site that had embedded Picasa slide shows and YouTube videos.  (No, I didn’t want to build my own out of AJAX and web services.)

I found that my embedded flash objects were over lapping my html elements.  This was problematic in that I had my navigation disappear whenever the flash object was “scrolled” over it.

The fix was to add the attribute “wmode” with a value of “opaque” (wmode=”opaque”) to the embed tag.  Voila, the overlapping z-index problem was solved.

In case you’re wondering messing with the CSS z-index value of the containing layers didn’t change anything.

Getting Virtual Server to Work on Windows Server 2008 running IIS7

I was recently tasked to make my wife’s Palm Desktop software to work.  It had been lying dormant, because we upgraded her machine. Her new operating system is Windows Vista 64-Bit, which is not compatible with the Palm/Access Hot Sync Manager.

 

So I decided to make a virtual machine (VM) that lives on my server.  I installed Virtual Server 2005 sp1 r2.  When I fired up the management console I found that the IIS 7 server didn’t know how to process VSWebAccess.exe.

I found this post that details how to set up the IIS CGI & and Authentication settings to run the interface correctly:

Getting Virtual Server '05 R2 Working on IIS7 in Longhorn Server : A Former Microsoft IIS PM : The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I’m mostly making note so I don’t have to remember where I found this, but this is a very good tutorial.  The only vague part is adding the CGI & Windows Authentication component.  If you have any questions or need any help with Virtual Server, leave me a comment.