Re: [flexcoders] Flex concerns

2005-03-04 Thread Sjors Pals
This is not true, Google is able to parse Flash files, but the results are offcourse not as good as for normal html. An alternative is to "cloack" spiders, and redirect them to plain content pages. Sjors Manish Jethani wrote: Shell Bryson wrote: > So far I've discovered; search engines ignore Fl

RE: [flexcoders] Flex concerns

2005-03-04 Thread David Mendels
r time. -David > -Original Message- > From: James Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 11:58 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex concerns > > > Well we are actually building our entire website / portal i

Re: [flexcoders] Flex concerns

2005-03-04 Thread James Ward
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

Re: [flexcoders] Flex concerns

2005-03-04 Thread Manish Jethani
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"

RE: [flexcoders] Flex concerns

2005-03-04 Thread Matt Horn
TML page after precompiling the MXML file. Yes, it doesn't support history management (that does require JS to my knowledge), but it's a nicely working app nonetheless. Thanks, Matt Horn From: Shell Bryson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, Ma

Re: [flexcoders] Flex concerns

2005-03-03 Thread James Ward
You bring up valid concerns, all of which I have had to deal with because in 2.5 weeks my company is releasing our new website which is entirely a Flex app! We have had to come up with a number of workarounds and hacks. Some of which have been very painful. However, anyone who has moved from the js