jquery dialog over iframe containing java applet

Part of our solution makes use of a viewer which is a java applet. I get that next-to-nothing can be displayed on top of it but I have e开发者_开发百科lements such as jquery dialogs that have to be displayed over it.

I have tried adding bgiframe and altering the code to be applied for all version of IE since we are using IE 8 in this specific instance. It didn't work properly.

The thing is that I need the iframe shim to be moved around, resized, and have it's visibility set along with the element it is linked to.

Are there any plug-ins to do this? If nothing exists I will need to develop one :(

I decided to create my own plug-in to do this.