Smart systems piss me off. Right now, I can't decide whether to be pissed at DoubleClick or Adobe right now for their SHITTY implementation of Flash ads.

DekiWiki makes a lot of use of inline popup divs, so there's some work being done with z-indexed layers ... which doesn't play very nice with Flash:

See the overlap? Here's the offending HTML:

<div id="DIV_20476501_11179448995515" style="position: static; visibility: visible; z-index: 999999;"<<embed alt="Click Here!" id="FLASH_20476501_11179448995515" src="..." quality="high" bgcolor="#" wmode="window" name="FLASH_20476501_11179448995515" swliveconnect="TRUE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" height="600" width="160"<</div<<script src="http://m1.2mdn.net/879366/globalTemplate_17_17.js" language="JavaScript"<</script<

Not only does DoubleClick have the nerve to send in wmode="window" (setting wmode="transparent" tends to solve this problem) ... but the div they send back has a z-index off 999999.

I understand there's no "best practices" for z-index, but this seems like a pretty shitty implementation ... some engineer decided, "Hey, ads are most important! Screw the presentation of the page that this exists!"

Fortunately, I've written some Javascript that loads in once that content loads and converts any wmodes and strips away any z-index foolishness... seems to work, except in a few cases (which I still haven't nailed down).

I hate DoubleClick, and I *really* hate Adobe.