How much work has gone into making OpenLaszlo-fronted web applications
more easily indexible by search engines?
I've been talking to drupal developers and people at content sites like
meetup.com and outside.in, video and social-networking sites like
blip.tv and non-profits like Greenpeace about RIAs. They're interested
in creating rich front-ends for their sites but only if the rich
front-end can degrade to something that bots can crawl and Google can
index. Search engine exposure is *very* important to them because most
people find out about info on these sites through Google.
How much thought has gone into making OpenLaszlo-based apps
search-friendly? I see this as a two different problems - making the
Laszlo app itself indexable using something like the Flash Search Engine
SDK *and* always publishing a set of non-RIA crawlable pages in addition
to the Laszlo app. The problem is one of providing a good user
experience to users and a good search engine experience to search
engines. I'm not sure that the expense of forked development and extra
maintenance imposed by having an RIA in parallel with their HTML-based
sites is worth it much of the time.
Any thoughts on searchability of OpenLaszlo-based applications?
Thanks,
-e
[0] http://www.adobe.com/licensing/developer/search/faq/
