Claus, You are of course right to suggest building an XHTML version first, as a strategy, but there are two problems with this.
1. One of the issues is that good product design usual requires that you develop the interface first. The interface drives the content and data needed. What you are suggesting may help acheive the best underpinnings, but it is very hard to design a good product if you start with the data. The best way to design is really to start with the UI, which flex is very good at. So you end up with Flex code first and you tweak it with real users etc. So you probably use some kind or remoting model. Now you are left trying to figure out a good way to make your remoting based stuff searchable. 2. Even if you decide to do it the way you describe, which is to start out with an XHTML framework, this model really does not fit the remoting model very well because you cant build a pure XHTML site based around remoting. So what you are really suggesting is that you cant use remoting, which is a cornerstone of the Flex development model, and develop a searchable product. But throwing out the whole concept of remoting is really not very appealing from a development model. Now, I am sure that it is possible to build a framework that would help to resolve these issues (and it would be great if adobe would develop such a thing), but certainly just saying use XHTML first would be a very hard task for most people, without such a framework, to do in a clean Flex/remoting friendly way. Regards, Hank On 12/16/06, Claus Wahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This discussions hits the mailinglists and forums since forever. It seems to me that Adobe still is five or more generations behind their own technology with respect to SEO. A while back i wrote an article about that very topic: http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/seffs-to-flash-or-not-to-flash/ You can see this method in action in this (Flash-)website: http://guipaganini.com.br/ Hope this helps a bit. Cheers, Claus. -- claus wahlers côdeazur brasil http://codeazur.com.br/ http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links
