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Flash IDE player is not the real world

Every flash developer has used the Flash IDE to debug and test his/her application.  Simple test the movie and you get a quick preview of your application.  However, the player in the flash IDE isn’t a standard player.  Here’s a list of things that will surely grow as my testing continues:

• Flash IDE has no crossdomain security because it assumes that anything loaded while testing is safe.  When testing cross domain issues, I tend to use javascript calls to console.log(a feature in firebug) to output errors.
• Flash IDE does not support stage.addEventListener(Event.MOUSE_LEAVE, foo).  This command is ignored when moving the mouse off the stage.  It seems to work when the application is slotted in a webpage.
• URLs with params do not work in flash IDE.  IE….. a relative path like “./event.jpg” is not logically equivalent to “./event.jpg?timestamp=123″ .  Flash IDE doesn’t know how to interpret the get params and throws errors when attempting to find event.jpg.