crossdomain gateway or “How can I get that data!”

Thaylin | May 29, 2009

A lot of sites today are very open with their APIs allowing users from other sites to retrieve their data, but sometimes you’ll come across websites that may not have that same open access. When their sites limit the access that other sites can retrieve data from via the crossdomain file it’s frustrating to say [...]

the down lo on ExternalInterface and javascript injection via actionscript 3

Thaylin | May 21, 2009

Yesterday I did a presentation on ExternalInterface and it’s uses along with how to inject javascript on the page and a few other tidbits at FlashCodersNY.
Here’s the zip file with the project we went over. Whether you were there or not you should still be able to easily follow along since there’s tons of comments [...]

Javascript injection via as3 to embed external libraries

Thaylin | May 1, 2009

On my quest to make the facebook actionscript connectivity as easy to work with as possible I needed to be able to reproduce the

?View Code ACTIONSCRIPT1
2
<script src="myExternalLibrary.js">
</script>

call in order for everything to work appropriately.
After some searching I came across a clip of code that worked beautifully