Flash is closed to a point. The format is not. This allows many tools to read and write or manipulate SWF and FLV files in many ways. Not that I love Flash from an authoring standpoint...the whole IDE UI has always been overly complex. It's a holdover from the days when Director and Lingo were king.
On 10/23/07, Matthew Nish-Lapidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Yes, it does exist, and there are a number of decent libraries that > offer this functionality. All I meant is that it take extra work and > time, and you have to plan for it from day one. Integrating these > techniques into existing flash sites is very difficult, if not > impossible. > > You also have to carefully map out your URI structure, since it's > completely abstract. This type of thing takes a ton of extra planning > work to pull off well, and most places don't or aren't willing to do > it. > > It also relies on some javascript, so now you have the > javascript/flash communication to worry about (although it's usually > not an issue). > > In the end, all these things are doable, but at what cost? And no > matter what you do you will never have the kind of search engine > friendliness you get with HTML. > > And none of these things address the big issue of Flash being a closed > platform. If HTML had been closed the web as we know it would not > exist. > > > On 10/23/07, Will Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 23, 2007, at 8:32 AM, Matthew Nish-Lapidus 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. > > > > The techniques I've seen offer standard bookmarkable URLs, displayed in > the > > browser address bar, which when used in a browser take one to the > current > > 'page' in the Flash app. Obviously, navigating to these URLS via browser > > back, forward and history buttons also work. So -- how are these "lesser > > versions"? (Before anyone mentions Ajax in this context, it's still > easier > > to find Flash devs than talented Ajax jockeys up here in Baja Canada.) > > > > Admittedly, more work for the Flash devs, but we should be designing for > the > > public, not the dev staff. Also, I'm now starting to see this > functionality > > abstracted out into relatively simple frameworks. > > > > -Will > > > > > > Will Parker > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Matt Nish-Lapidus > email/gtalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ++ > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattnl > Home: http://www.nishlapidus.com > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help > -- -------------------------------------------------- www.flyingyogi.com -------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
