Hi,
I started using STAPI on a project I'm working on and I noticed that when I click the "share this" button it causes Flash content on the page to disappear (or be obscured?) in Firefox. This doesn't happen in Safari. The ST dialog doesn't actually cover the Flash object at all. In fact, it is not even close. The Flash content does come back when you close the ShareThis dialog.
Is this normal? Can I fix it?
Further debugging with Firebug reveals that the "embed" element for the Flash is getting the "visibility: hidden" property when I click the ShareThis link. Is the Javascript for ShareThis doing this? If I change the property with Firebug, the Flash displays just fine along with the ShareThis overlay. What's up?
Ok, I dug into the ShareThis Javascript code and found that for some silly reason ShareThis hides embed tags. I had to add "embeds:true" to the options when creating the button.
What is the purpose of hiding embedded objects? That seems like a really strange default behavior.
We hide the flash objects to keep them from bleeding through into the widget iframe. They can render ShareThis unusable if they try and occupy the same space.
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