I have had a few emails that were misunderstood to the point they really upset someone when it was not my intent at all. I think due to the frustration of the issue things might be taken out of hand. I'm going to one up all you guys and say JD AND Hank are both really nice guys. I've been on the list with both of them for the last 3 years. Anyway, back to the point.
We need JD to present this to Adobe as issue that needs attention. We also need to be actively sending feature requests to the wish list and Google wish list (is there one?). The way features make it into next releases is mostly by majority vote and plausability (budget and other factors etc but still mainly majority rule). While I know google will eventually get to it because Flex apps will become more and more prevalent we can have them start addressing it now. The other thing we can do is make it known to google that we are creating Flex apps. There are no if ands or buts about it. They are coming. And if Google wants to index them they are going to have to work with Adobe to figure out a way to index dynamic content. --- The problem - Flex apps that have dynamic content are not searchable by search engines. Example, a Flex forum. The Scenario - Current search engines follow links, index content and keywords and rank based based on that and other criteria (trackback links etc) The Players - Developers, Clients, Adobe, Google, Yahoo, etc - Users The Solution: - Something developers could figure out. - Something Adobe, Google or both together could figure out <-- best in my opinion ADOBE PULL RANK - Technically, it could be anything that works. Could be a completely new approach. Maybe Google can call public API's in the swf to get dynamic content. Whatever it is it, the ball needs to start moving in this direction. - All we need is something simple that works and doesn't interfere with our work In the mean time: - http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform - [PLACE LINK TO GOOGLE WISH LIST HERE - no, i don't have it] - blog on it - continue to work through the issues in this thread. - send flowers to JD. come back JD we love you!!! you had us at hello?!?!? On 12/16/06, Cortlandt Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would like to say that I feel strongly that jd has been poorly treated and wrongly insulted a number of times in this thread. I'd also like to suggest that allowing link spidering to dictate the future of content indexing may be shortsighted. It's convienient, but it gets worse every year as a way of finding information. Ten years ago Alta Vista was the stuff, today it's Google, but the nature of search engines is such that any year Google could find itself replaced by something else, rss being a perfect example for a specific kind of info. Also, as a side note, as advertisers and marketers optimize the hell out of their information, it gets harder to find real information on Google (and not have the first 5 pages of a simple query return only links to products). The natural progression is that that will continue until something else takes over the role. I realize that in many cases it makes sense to go with the flow for either marketing or technical reasons and that google is a useful tool, but it's far from the endgame on indexing information. I do agree that it would be in Adobe's interest to make publishing well tagged information easier with built in components, tools, examples and specs, but it's really going to be hard for them to do something like that by themselves. They are probably better off waiting for developers to articulate the problems and brainstorm solutions until it's clear what they could do to help. Just my thoughts, not to be taken to seriously, but my real purpose of commenting here is that I don't think jd was well treated and I wanted to mention that.
