Dropdown menus are "stopping" my Flash animation, causing choppy animation. IE ONLY

Question

Background:

On a recent website, I'm using a jQuery driven dropdown menu in addition to a Flash scrolling animation.

Note: I am only using the Flash animation in IE only as I created an equivalent, jQuery based animation for all other browsers (because, surprise, IE didn't handle the jQuery version). So please look at this in IE only.

http://www.surveyinitiative.co.uk/

The Problem

When you hover over the dropdown menus, the Flash animation temporarily "freezes" and the continues. This causes choppy behavior in the Flash animation.

Questions

Whey is this happening?
Is there anything I can do to stop this behavior?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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Try adding the wmode="opaque" parameter to your movie object.

See: differences between using wmode="transparent", "opaque", or "window" for an embedded object on a webpage

edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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answered Oct 22 '10 at 14:20

Diodeus - James MacFarlane

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Doesn't fix the problem. It's almost as if the Flash and the javascript are running on the same thread. – lamarant Oct 26 '10 at 13:11
Taking a closer look, it seems your extensive use of CANVAS is competing for too many CPU cycles. You're paying the price for non-standard fonts. – Diodeus - James MacFarlane Oct 26 '10 at 16:44

Dropdown menus are "stopping" my Flash animation, causing choppy animation. IE ONLY

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