Depends on what you call "free". Deep-linking is not just a problem with Flash,
but with AJAX/DHTML apps as well. Assuming a heavy AJAX front-end, roughly the
same amount of work must be done in Javascript as much as Actionscript in
Flash. Our team has had to deal with issues when developing both Flash and AJAX
front-ends, and neither were all that easy.
On Tuesday, October 23, 2007, at 08:42AM, "Matthew Nish-Lapidus" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The issue with all these techniques for adding bookmarks, deep links,
>etc.. is that they are a lot of work and have to be integrated at the
>very beginning of the project.. and in the end they give you a lesser
>version of what you get for free in a browser.
>
>
>On 10/23/07, Will Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 23, 2007, at 5:17 AM, James Leslie wrote:
>>
>> > Additionally, I don't believe that Flash pages can be bookmarked at
>> > anything other than the root level.
>>
>> There has been some work done on creating bookmarkable URLs in Flash
>> pages, and apparently there are two or three methods that work
>> reasonably well. I don't have my collection of links handy at the
>> moment, but see http://f6design.com/journal/2006/11/18/deeplink-flash-
>> deep-linking/ for one example. If there's interest, I can dig out more.
>>
>> The *real* problem is getting Flash-only developers to think of HTML
>> as anything but a wrapper to be added on later.
>
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