visualplayground

To provide a better user experience, we often use content delivery solutions at Big Spaceship, like Limelight or Akamai, to host bigger files and reduce load time. (Although this cuts into the user’s time spent watching pretty loaders.)

During a recent project, we ran into a couple of security errors loading external module.swf files from a different domain than main.swf. The idea was to have a basic framework in main that controls IN and OUT animations of the modules and have all additional functionality in the module.swf itself. All loaded swf files extended Big Spaceships StandardInOut Class to be controllable from the main file, so we could easily cast the loaded modules.

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