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HTML
<object width="793" height="198" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" id="content-banner" data="http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/flashplatform/flashplatform_fma/assets/global/swf/main.swf" style="visibility: visible;"><param name="menu" value="false"><param name="salign" value="t1"><param name="scale" value="noscale"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="wmode" value="opaque"><param name="flashvars" value="securityDomain=true&assets=http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/flashplatform/flashplatform_fma/assets/&startPage=&live=true&locale=en_us&divId=content-banner"></object>
<div id="silver">On this element the mouseover works. Why does Flash fail?</div>
<br />
<div><b>Debug Output</b></div>
<div id="log"></div>
CSS
div { font-family: Consolas, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 1em;}
#silver { background-color: silver; }
#log { border: 1px solid silver; }
JavaScript
$(document).ready(function () {
$('#content-banner').mouseover(function () {alert(1);});
$('#silver').mouseover(function () {alert(2);});
var debug = 'Number of event handlers on #content-banner: ';
events = $('#content-banner').data("events");
debug += events === undefined ? 0 : events.length;
debug += '<br />';
debug += 'Number of event handlers on #silver: ';
events = $('#silver').data("events");
debug += events === undefined ? 0 : events.mouseover.length;
$('#log').append(debug);
// Apparently the following works, uncomment to test.
//
//document.getElementById("content-banner").onmouseover = function (evt) { alert(3); };
});