Flash as background on web pages / stock selling

Flash  Flash 10  Actionscript 3  Pixel Bender 
20 November 2008

Doing some experimenting of putting a flash SWF as a background bellow HTML and creating a stock selling package for FlashDen.net.

After some initial trying and failing, I ended up with a minimalistic approach that seems to work on all major browsers. The solution is intuitive; absolutely positioning a DIV element (html based content) over a DIV containing the Flash SWF, and using the z-index css property to handle z-order. Export settings when building the SWF also needs to be correct. 

Having discovered FlashDen.Net, I decided to take my Recursive Zoomer and package it in the format FlashDen.Net requires. It literally took hours, as I had to make a preview package, preview image, and the purchase package. I set up a small mini site that will be used for previewing on their site, here it is:RecursiveZoomer Preview Site Thumbnail

Currently number 96 in their review queue.

UPDATE: After about 5 days in their review queue my package was rejected since they do not accept CS4 (Flash 10) stuff yet.

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 By Og2t, Thu 20 Aug 2009 13:32
It looks very nice, reminds me of some demoscene fxes. Does the background div use "gpu" wmode? Will you be releasing it as opensource then?