Opacity

To make windows behind our desktop application partly visible we can use the property opacity. The value given is a percentage, and tells Sidewinder how much of the web application to show, and how much of any application sitting behind. This feature is useful when creating applications such as clocks where we'd like the information to be available all the time, but we don't want to lose screen space.

By adding the following settings to the Flickr Search web application other applications will now be partly visible 'through' our application:

    <meta name="transparency" content="fffffe" />
    <meta name="opacity" content="70" />
    <style type="text/css">

The modified application is available here.

Alternatively, we can open the basic Flickr web application with the following command:

swviewer2 http://svn.x-port.net/svn/public/samples/flickr/flickr.webapp#meta(position=top-right,anchor,autohide,height=700,chrome=false,transparency=fffffe,opacity=70)

Note however that this won't quite work with the example we've been using, since a background of #fffffe needs to be added.