As of today we have two open bugs specific to Flash Player 9.0.115.0 ActiveX
control and the use of getURL("javascript:...") syntax..

 I will be writing a technote describing the workarounds today or tomorrow, but
I wanted to share some of my testing with the community so you can see what the
story is.

 Issue one:
 getURL("javascript:blah()") failing when the content is local to a drive or cd
or dvd. This is a legit bug, not a problem with FlashPlayer trust.

 This post does not describe issueone , but you -can- use the source FLA's to
test issue one.

 Issue two:
 getURL("javascript") failing with live content if the HTML and SWF are in
separate domains. IE6 and IE7 only.

 ExternalInterface has been successful as a workaround for that as well (in my
tests at least...)

 At this point I cannot provide an ETA on any fixes, though I am pushing hard
for these to be addressed in the next planned update (no, i cannot tell you
when that is, sorry).

 OK now for my testing.

 Each test uses the same SWF setup, but the javascript and html change as
necessary. The results of ?my- testing are below each link.

 All my tests are with Flash Player 9.0.115.0. As most on the thread surely
know these bugs were injected in the 9.0.115.0 development process and do not
appear in 9.0.47.0....

 There are four tests in each version (top to bottom)
 -- button 1: getURL
 -- button 2: externalInterface passing a string via a variable, which is
caught by javascript in the HTML page
 -- button 3: fscommand
 -- button 4: externalInterface calling 'window.open' directly with no in-page
javascript

 -- Buttons 1 through 3 (top to bottom) fire an alert, put some text into the
debug text box in the SWF and open a new window.
 -- Button 4 only opens a new window, puts some text into the debug text box,
but no alert (because it?s a direct call to window.open)

 Scenario 1:
 HTML and SWF in same domain, no frames

 The original AS2 version:
 http://www.bentimagemedia.com/escalations/cs3_getURL/getURL_AS2.html
 FireFox OSX ? all pass
 FireFox XP ? all pass
 IE6 XP ? all pass
 IE7 Vista - all pass

 The AS3 version:
 http://www.bentimagemedia.com/escalations/cs3_getURL/getURL_AS3.html
 FireFox OSX ? all pass
 FireFox XP ? all pass
 IE6 XP ? all pass
 IE7 Vista - all pass

 Scenario 2:
 HTML and SWF in same domain, frameset, calls going to same frames ? this setup
has two horizontal frames with the AS2 version of the SWF in the top, the AS3
version in the bottom.

 http://www.bentimagemedia.com/escalations/cs3_getURL/frames/getURL_fr...
 FireFox OSX ? all pass
 FireFox XP ? all pass
 IE6 XP ? all pass
 IE7 Vista - all pass

 Scenario 3: (THIS IS ISSUE TWO ABOVE)
 HTML and SWF on different domains, calls going to the same frames ? same
swf?s, same setup with modified HTML. The HTML lives on bentimagemedia, but the
SWF?s are embedded from supportflash.com

http://www.bentimagemedia.com/escalations/cs3_getURL/frames_crossdoma...
rames_crossdomain.html
 FireFox OSX ? all pass
 FireFox XP - all pass
 IE6 XP ? Button 1 getURL("javascript"...) fires function, but does not open
new window.
 - all other buttons pass
 IE7 Vista - Button 1 getURL("javascript...) fires function, no new window same
as IE6.
 -- all other buttons pass