[FLEX-18901] transparent mx:Window blocks swf loading in html control (ex: you tube player)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK 3.3 (Release)
• Component/s: mx: HTML Control, mx: Window
• Environment: Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Language Found: English
• Assignee: Adobe JIRA
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 24/Apr/09 08:11
• Updated: 24/Apr/09 14:14
• Resolved: 24/Apr/09 14:14

Description

if you have a swf that loads another swf in an html control. Making the window transparent=true will not allow the 2nd swf to be loaded (or the 1st swf doesn't start correctly, not sure which).

In the attached example I'm using the youtube chromeless player, loaded via html. to load the you tube player the requests are as follows (you can see this in service capture).

1. request : http://www.youtube.com/apiplayer
2. this returns a 303 redirect to
http://www.youtube.com/cl.swf
3. this then loads
http://www.youtube.com/apiplayer.swf

The bug, is that if you make the window transparent, #3 never happens. And you can not run you tube in a mx:Window component. Why does a mx:Window UI control the behavior of the html control?

To see this, toggle the boolean on line 19 of the HTMLLoaderExample.mxml file.