I am trying to understand how to make sure the 'id' property is available on the DOM elements.
It looks like if I simply modify function org.apache.flex.core.UIBase.prototype.set_id() to directly assign the 'value' to this.element.id it works, the id property becomes available at runtime and is shown by Firebug. Is there a reason why set_id() currently does not do it? If this modification is acceptable I will submit a patch. Tigran.