View Source Redux

Well, I'm getting closer.

If you click on this link:
http://www.igetitmusic.com/blog/SWFs/Tweener/Tweener.swf
...the Tweener app will come up. It doesn't do anything interesting.

Now, right-click (or, on a Mac, Command-click) on it, and a menu will appear; choose View Source, and voila, you're taken to a little applet that allows you to view Tweener's source, which it correctly looks for in http://www.igetitmusic.com/blog/SWFs/Tweener/srcview/index.html.

Coolness! Love it! Kudos to Adobe! :-)

But, if I embed Tweener's SWF -- using a reference to exactly the same file, mind you (i.e., http://www.igetitmusic.com/blog/SWFs/Tweener/Tweener.swf) -- into this blog entry, then the View Source menu item for the embedded SWF does not work, because it incorrectly looks for the source code in http://www.igetitmusic.com/blog/srcview/index.html.

Here is such an embedding of Tweener:


Bring up its View Source menu, select it, and voila! you're taken to the wrong @#$%& page.

Apparently, the Tweener SWF contains an algorithm -- generated by Flex Builder, not me -- that constructs a path to where it expects to find the source code for its View Source menu item. This algorithm appears to be based on the path to the file in which the SWF is embedded, rather than the path to the SWF file itself.

But...that's a bug, isn't it? If I want to embed a given SWF in (say) ten different web pages, then using the source-path algorithm than Flex is currently using, I'd have to copy the SWF's source code to each of those ten web page's servers...which I can't possibly know in advance. That's a major violation of information-hiding, isn't it -- in addition to being a huge pain in the posterior.

I would think that a much better default behavior would be to look for [somepath]/foo.swf's source code in [somepath]/srcview/index.html, no matter what the path to the html in which foo.swf was embedded.

What am I missing, here?