I got lucky this week and was able to write up my research on making Flash more browser-friendly. Whether or not the methods I found will be adopted by our Flash devs is still TBD (but I still have my +2 Email Of Overwhelming Persuasion on hand if there's trouble).
Here are the best references I found. The Penner article appears to be the grandaddy of them all, while the Chakramedia article gives a very complete discussion of current implementations, including deep linking. Will Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================ Robert Penner's original implementation (May 2001) http://www.robertpenner.com/index2.html (only worked in IE 5 and up, but IE 5 is currently pretty much dead) Adobe implementation (Jul 2002) http://www.adobe.com/devnet/blueprint/articles/back_button.html Full tutorial Using Flash 'named anchors' feature - Flash Magazine (May 2004) http://www.flashmagazine.com/688.htm Justin Smith / Chakramedia - Deep Link & Back Button Integration with Flash (Apr 2005, updated 2006) http://chakramedia.com/blog/archive-deep-stateful-linking-and-back- button-integration-with-flash-applications/ Includes fix for Eolas click patent issues. Very complete reference to related articles. Enabling a back button within Flash (Sep 2005) http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/142/1/Enabling-a-back- button-within-flash/Page1.html Full tutorial. See Comment #4 at the bottom of the article for an alternate implementation that may improve user experience === Related Articles === Universal Javascript to Flash Communication (cited in Actionscript.org article) http://www.mustardlab.com/developer/flash/jscommunication/ Adobe Knowlegebase Technote - How to make a back button in a SWF file (Jun 2007) http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_14831 Describes implementing nav history within the SWF, not 'browser back' 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. > > > 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. > > -- > Matt Nish-Lapidus > email/gtalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ++ > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattnl > Home: http://www.nishlapidus.com ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ 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
