On 12/18/06, John Dowdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
sanjaypmg wrote: > Is Flex SEO Compatible? > If yes, How can I my flex application SEC compatible? so that it can > be easily available for search engines available. This was the original question. Other topics came up during discussion. I'd like to confirm that I have the correct understanding of the main action item here... is the following wishlist item accurate? "I'd like Adobe to provide examples on how to expose user-entered text, stored within my database and displayed and entered through a Flex SWF's UI, so that any search engine could search for that user text and return the address of the interface." I'm on the right page here for the subsequent discussion, true...?
John, First of all I want to apologize for the stridency of my earlier remarks. While I did not agree with the tone of your response to this subject, I certainly could have addressed the issue in a more measured tone than I did. Regarding your question, I think you are exactly clear, with one caveat. Having thought about this a fair bit, I suspect that its more than just an example, in the typical sense of the word. In my thinking, what would be really good (needed?) is something that requires some server side code. The idea is that certain urls need to return data that is packaged along with the html wrapper and the swf. for example, when a user accesses www.myapp.com it would get the standard html wrapper and swf . But if an app provides an extended url like www.myapp.com?field=yadayada then the field=yadayada might be a signal to provide some specific XML data in the html along with the swf. The swf could then also access the same data using the standard remoting mechanism by reading the application parameters. This would allow us to get data into the html and still use remoting as the primary way of grabbing data from the server. The best place for this kind of thing would be in adobe's server products, FDS and cold fusion. Perhaps it could be done with some server side sample code. It would require that the developer on the server side could read the url and easily add XML type data to the html wrapper. Right now I don't know that I could do this at all with FDS and I dont know much about cold fusion. Amusingly, in this area, without using these tools one has much more control of the form of the wrapper, and writing in a server language like php it might be much easier. I am not clear how this could be addressed on the client side alone, since the only way to address it is to have additional information delivered when querying certain URLs. Regards, Hank
