ExternalInterface: SWFs Communicate with the World Around Them
Initiate reliable, stable communication between SWFs and the containers that love them using Flash 8's new ExternalInterface class.
by Rich Shupe
January 19, 2006
hen I was a boy, I used to walk miles to school in the sleet and snow—uphill in both directions. The days of yore weren't much easier when we aging developers were cutting our teeth on Flash/JavaScript communication. We had to deal with a messy collection of kludges and workarounds that, all together, still wouldn't work in the majority of contemporary browsers.
You kids today have it easy. Why, Flash 8's new ExternalInterface class makes getURL("javascript:"), fscommand , and LocalConnection hacks a distant memory.
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hen I was a boy, I used to walk miles to school in the sleet and snow—uphill in both directions. The days of yore weren't much easier when we aging developers were cutting our teeth on Flash/JavaScript communication. We had to deal with a messy collection of kludges and workarounds that, all together, still wouldn't work in the majority of contemporary browsers.
