For starters, I decided to bake the FreeMind Flash Browser into a gadget. You can now embed your FreeMind-generated MindMaps into a Google Gadget with my FreeMind Flash Browser Google Gadget. Feedback is welcome - hope you find it useful.
One caveat/limitation. Flash security policy will prevent crossdomain loading of your MindMap. Specifically, the gadget code is hosted on a *.gmodules.com domain. However, most users will wish to upload/embed MindMaps to their Google Sites (sites.google.com) or another Google domain. At the moment, this will not work as Google does not host a Crossdomain Policy file at its root. It is this policy file that allows Flash to load movies across Google's domains. I've posted an inquiry on the Google Sites Help Group to see if there is any traction towards enabling such a policy.
For now, what works for me is:
- Upload the MindMap to a hosting account you have control over.
- Create a crossdomain.xml policy file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy
SYSTEM "http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">
<cross-domain-policy>
<allow-access-from domain="*.google.com" />
<allow-access-from domain="*.gmodules.com" />
<allow-access-from domain="*.googlecode.com" />
</cross-domain-policy>
Upload the file to the root location of the domain under which your MindMaps are hosted, i.e. http://mydomain.com/crossdomain.xml - Specify the fully qualified url to the MindMap within the FreeMind Flash Browser Google Gadget initLoadFile setting, i.e. http://mydomain.com/mymaps/mindmap.mm. The gadget should be able to render the map.
