Hi, Yes, it does exist, and there are a number of decent libraries that offer this functionality. All I meant is that it take extra work and time, and you have to plan for it from day one. Integrating these techniques into existing flash sites is very difficult, if not impossible.
You also have to carefully map out your URI structure, since it's completely abstract. This type of thing takes a ton of extra planning work to pull off well, and most places don't or aren't willing to do it. It also relies on some javascript, so now you have the javascript/flash communication to worry about (although it's usually not an issue). In the end, all these things are doable, but at what cost? And no matter what you do you will never have the kind of search engine friendliness you get with HTML. And none of these things address the big issue of Flash being a closed platform. If HTML had been closed the web as we know it would not exist. On 10/23/07, Will Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 23, 2007, at 8:32 AM, Matthew Nish-Lapidus wrote: > > The issue with all these techniques for adding bookmarks, deep links, > etc.. is that they are a lot of work and have to be integrated at the > very beginning of the project.. and in the end they give you a lesser > version of what you get for free in a browser. > > The techniques I've seen offer standard bookmarkable URLs, displayed in the > browser address bar, which when used in a browser take one to the current > 'page' in the Flash app. Obviously, navigating to these URLS via browser > back, forward and history buttons also work. So -- how are these "lesser > versions"? (Before anyone mentions Ajax in this context, it's still easier > to find Flash devs than talented Ajax jockeys up here in Baja Canada.) > > Admittedly, more work for the Flash devs, but we should be designing for the > public, not the dev staff. Also, I'm now starting to see this functionality > abstracted out into relatively simple frameworks. > > -Will > > > Will Parker > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Matt Nish-Lapidus email/gtalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattnl Home: http://www.nishlapidus.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
