In a production we just did, we encountered a really frustrating bug in Flash. It didn’t allow us to use Swedish character-sets in certain web browsers as long as we used wmode transparent.
- https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-105
- http://flashmonk.blogspot.com/2007/08/wmode-key-flash-bug.html
- http://blog.headlondon.com/2006/06/02/no-wmode-please-were-british/