Claus Wahlers wrote: > The Flash website was http://guipaganini.com.br/ > It supports deep linking, eg. http://guipaganini.com.br/12/75 > View source (or switch off JS) to get the idea. > The XHTML is loaded as is into Flash. > I'm using the Symfony PHP5 framework on the server side. > (Disclaimer: don't look too close at the Flash site, it's been a low > budget project and i still need to finetune it) > That site highlights the problem I see with this solution. It does work as it is, but try adding a live updating deep link support (such as Flex has, or unFocus.History can do, or urlKit, which I haven't checked out yet).
You'd end up with odd urls like http://guipaganini.com.br/12/75#13/76 instead of having consistent urls such as http://guipaganini.com.br/#13/76 or the other. I suppose for an information rich site, it might make sense to initially serve up the content as html, and then offer a manual path back into your application, after they have read the content. Either way, it's reconciling the two urltypes that's the crux of the problem as I see it. Honestly, this problem is so large, maybe this is a problem for the browser makers and thos The Web Standards Project <http://www.webstandards.org/> guys. Since this is a problem for more than just Flash based Web Apps, they could come up with a standard or something (and hopefully not get ignored like the w3c does). Just a thought. Kevin N.
