Right now a FlexJS Application is always being attached to the <body> tag and the width/size etc. is assumed to be the whole browser window.
This is problematic. There’s plenty of applications where the app is a specific part of a web page with a header, footer, navigation, etc. Now, before someone tells me we can just always embed an application in an iframe, let me tell you that it’s not always an option. The biggest stumbling block is a major bug in iOS where the virtual keyboard is not available to apps within iframes. This caused me to give iOS special handling of an HTML app I wrote to use a div instead of an iframe. I think we should add a “hostID” property to Application which Application would use to find the div it attaches itself to at startup. There should also be x,y,width,height and alpha properties on Application to get this info on the div. In fact, I think an Application should be an IUIBase. I’ll be happy to make these changes, but I wanted to discuss this before I do. Harbs
