# Flash 9 not backwards-compatible?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-9-not-backwards-compatible/221278>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 3, 2007, 3:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-9-not-backwards-compatible/221278 "2007-04-03T03:06:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![unikrl8](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/unikrl8/32/548_2.png) [@unikrl8](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/unikrl8)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 3:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-9-not-backwards-compatible/221278/1 "2007-04-03T03:06:20Z")

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I mistitled the thread because I thought the problem was with the version of flash player, but when I ran my swf locally everything worked fine, so I now know that it’s a problem created by making the swf remote. Perhaps an admin could change it to “bitmapdata.draw() doesn’t work remotely” if they read this.

[www.k4rl.com/flickr/](http://www.k4rl.com/flickr/)

My swf works fine when I run it locally, but not when I run it from my server!?

When images from flickr are loaded into my swf on [k4rl.com](http://k4rl.com), flash doesn’t want to bitmapdata.draw(mc) the mc with the image (for the reflection), but this problem is non-existent locally.

Everything is identical, same SWF, same browser… can anyone explain why they behave differently locally and remotely.