GE Plugin wont allow Transparent Iframe Shims

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create an Iframe shim to display content over the GE Plugin window (with
a z-index bigger than the GE Plugin div)
2. Make the shim transparent (background-color: transparent in the shim
style and allowTransparency=true Attribute in the shim iframe definition)
3. Display some arbitrary content over the shim (with a bigger z-index than
the shim)
4. When displaying the shim + the overlaid content over an java applet, the
transparency will work, but it wont work with the GE Plugin.

What is the expected output or behavior? What do you see instead?
Expected would be to see the GE plugin through the transparent iframe shim,
but there is no transparency.

Which plugin version are you using?
VPlug: 4.3.11528.8566 VEarth: 4.3.11528.8566 VApi: 1.001

Which browsers and operating systems are affected?
IE 7 and FF 3 under Windows

Please provide any additional information (code snippets/links) below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by paul.zer...@dai-labor.de on 6 Feb 2009 at 1:06

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I'd love to see this happen too.

I posted about this in this topic:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-earth-browser-
plugin/browse_thread/thread/f3a5ea13984fd8e2/8ab9b547b11eba78#8ab9b547b11eba78

Attached is an photoshop illustration of what I'm trying to achieve.

Original comment by Rembrant...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2009 at 9:08

Attachments:

• Earth.png

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Changing this to a feature request. Thanks very much for the report and the 
Earth.png
use case!

Original comment by api.roman.public@gmail.com on 23 Mar 2009 at 5:46

• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Similar type of here problem. SOme kind of new error where there is a white box
layered UNDER GE plugin but OVER the page b/ground - makes GE unusable.

See screen grab - bottom right hand side where white box overlays on b/ground. 
This
began to appear around FEB 24th - 27th - prior to this date it was fine.

Original comment by laa...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2010 at 6:15

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• songlines.jpg

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This would be very handy for StrataLogica.  I'm sure the GE devs are aware of 
what this is now :).

Original comment by jnbar...@gmail.com on 25 Oct 2010 at 7:21

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any update here?
is this feature now available?

Original comment by samer.ze...@gmail.com on 27 Jan 2013 at 12:07

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i am getting problem to display semitransparent iframes on google 
earth..transparency of iframe not effect ..help plz..

Original comment by bramasri...@gmail.com on 24 Aug 2013 at 1:15

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I was able to get transparent iframes working only on Mac OSX Firefox and 
Chrome. Same code running on the same version of FF and Chrome on win 7 doesn't 
allow transparencies.

Original comment by locborg...@gmail.com on 24 Aug 2013 at 8:34

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Any change? When will this feature by available?

Original comment by Catia.To...@gmail.com on 27 Aug 2014 at 2:44