The Breathtaking ads on Yahoo and Msn

Well i have been puzzled, turned upside down with the amazing ads that apppear in Yahoo and Msn.

These are made in Flash. Run around the entire screen area. And do more than just appear.

Hell how do they make them? using a combination of DHTML (layers) and sequence with flash with no background (Flash without bg works only on HTML backgrounds).

Does anybody have any idea about this. Does it have anything to do with borderless flash.

Rohan D'souza
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I was about to ask this question myself. I love it when they enlarge, float all over the screen, then minimize right back into their regular spot on the page.

Browsers that support windowless mode:


Internet Explorer 3 or higher for windows
Internet Explorer 5.1 and higher for Macintosh
Netscape 7.0
Mozilla 1.0 or higher
AOL


There are three different ways to make the background transparent:


Publishing from Flash


The HTML for a Flash movie can be created using the Publish Settings feature in Flash.
The Publish Settings dialog box provides an option to affect the WMODE setting. The
options selected in the Publish Settings will be added to the HTML source code
automatically:
Choose File > Publish Settings. Select the HTML tab.
Choose "Transparent" in the WMODE setting to make the Flash movie's background
disappear in browsers which support this feature.
Publish the document.
Using Dreamweaver MX
In Dreamweaver MX, insert the Flash movie into an HTML page.
Select the Flash movie in the Design View
In the Properties panel, choose Parameters
For the Parameter, enter "wmode" (without quotes). For the Value, enter "transparent"
Save the document. The HTML page is complete.
Editing HTML code manually


To edit an existing HTML page, add the WMODE parameters to the HTML code.


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

Add the following parameter to the EMBED tag:
wmode="transparent"