[Project_owners] Flash, XUL Windows, and more

[Brian King]

Hi,

I am having some issues and hope project owners have experienced 
something similar and found reasonable workarounds.

SCENARIO
A Firefox extension that opens a modal window, with Flash content 
embedded. That window in turn opens another window with a browser for 
web content. The browser window is sized to only fill some of the screen 
space to allow viewing and access to the flash content under. Note that 
putting the flash and web content in a XUL stack is not an option 
because the web content gets distorted.

ISSUES

1) On Windows I can use the 'dependent' flag with window.open/openDialog 
when opening the web window. This allows me to click Flash content while 
keeping the web content on top.
However on Mac, 'dependent' is not functional (by design), nor 
alwaysRaised. Is there any workaround to make the 2nd window stay on top 
while allowing click access to the window under?

2) (Windows) The Flash window should be modal when opened, but using the 
modal flag means it is only modal to the opener. Other windows can be 
accessed still. Is there any way to make a new window modal to *all* 
open Firefox windows?

3) Modal works even different on Mac ... it is modal *system side* and 
does not allow access to any open applications. But you can still access 
their menus. In my new window, can I override the Firefox menubar and/or 
the menubar of other applications?

3) window.fullscreen is not implemented on Mac.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370857
Any ways to emulate it? Or failing that, disallow click on the menu or 
dock? Or some other reasonable solution?

Thanks,
- Brian