Well we are actually building our entire website / portal in Flex. So the search engine problem applies to us. Luckily we have a content management system behind our portal so our solution is to hide an iframe with a plain old indexable version of our site. Any links into that iframe get redirected to the correct place in the portal. This is one of the topics which will be in the article I will be writing in April.
-James On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 01:13 +0530, Manish Jethani wrote: > Shell Bryson wrote: > > > So far I've discovered; search engines ignore Flex apps. > > Thankfully! Search engines can't tell the difference between a webpage > with *content* (like a news article, a website with food recipes, etc.) > and a "web application", and they end up indexing the application > "contents" (like all the labels and stuff?). Why would a search engine > want to index a Flex app? What's there in a Flex app for a search > engine to know about? > > My understanding is that Flex is for *applications* while HTML/CSS is > for *content*. If you use one for the other, you have trouble. > > Manish > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > >
