Im building an AIR application using the HTML/JS SDK.
I can include scripts and stylesheets as long as they are in the same folder as my website, but no remote content fetched from the Internet can be included ! No remote scripts, neither from jquery nor from google… I put <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> and nothing happens ! It is the case for every file, not only this one.
Have you ever run into this issue ? In the AIR documentation they seem to present us with big mashups and remote inclusions all the time, still it won’t work for me !
You can definitely do this in AIR, but you need to work around the security restrictions as by default you can’t do this from the first frame that is loaded. Thankfully it’s not too hard.
You need to create an iframe in your main html page (e.g. index.html) and load all of your content into this. Your main html page then acts as a controller of sorts allowing you to call methods which require enhanced security permissions (file system etc..), while any code loaded into the iframe is allowed to load external media and scripts and also allowed to use JavaScript eval and other methods which are otherwise blocked in the main frame of the application.
You can read about it here http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/devappshtml/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7f08.html#WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7f07
Read the full page so you understand the concept, but pay particular attention to the sandboxRoot and documentRoot attributes when you are setting up the iframe.