Developers will often face a roadblock when loading remote data in their widget, because unless a cross-domain file is present, Flash will throw a "sandbox" security error.  For performance reasons, it is better if you rely on a cross-domain file being present, however if this is not an option you can use widget.newHTTP() and widget.newRSS() to create loader objects that will proxy your data in an accessible domain.  Both of these functions work in a similar manner, but newRSS() is meant for loading RSS feeds, and supports authorization.       

var rss; import yourminis.api.IWidget var widget:IWidget; addEventListener("widget-loaded",onWidgetLoaded); function onWidgetLoaded(evt:Event) { widget.initWidget(300,250,0x000000); widget.debugMode = true; rss = widget.newRSS(); //create the rss loader rss.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,onRSSLoaded); //an event that is fired when //the load is completed var myurl = "http://feeds.feedburner.com/yourminis"; rss.load(new URLRequest(myurl)); //load the url //if you wanted to load a feed that required authorization, you would do the following: //rss.loadRSS("myURL","myUserName","myPassword") where //"myURL" is a string containing the URL you wish to load //"myUserName" is a string containing the username to log in with //"myPassword" is a string containing the password to log in with } function onRSSLoaded(evt:Event) { var loader:URLLoader = URLLoader(evt.target); namespace dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"; namespace content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"; namespace geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"; var rssxml:XML = XML(loader.data); for each (var item:XML in rssxml..item) //parse out each item in the xml feed { widget.debug(item.title); //print out each title to the debug console } }