Comments on: Enabling Deep Linking in Flash – Changing my mind on experience sites in general. http://visualrinse.com/2007/02/01/enabling-deep-linking-in-flash-changing-my-mind-on-experience-sites-in-general/ Design, Development, Technology and My Life. Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:30:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Benny http://visualrinse.com/2007/02/01/enabling-deep-linking-in-flash-changing-my-mind-on-experience-sites-in-general/comment-page-1/#comment-88667 Benny Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:31:10 +0000 http://visualrinse.com/2007/02/01/enabling-deep-linking-in-flash-changing-my-mind-on-experience-sites-in-general/#comment-88667 Deep linking for Flash is great, but it is still quite hard to implement (for noobs) in my opinion. I'm an interactive designer myself. There should be books written about it, because every Flash developer making a Flash website should adopt it. I have seen a lot of great examples of full Flash websites with deep linking that worked great. I hope this trend of better usable Flash websites will change the perception of it. I'm sick of people saying Flash should not be used for websites. At least fully. Imo if done properly a Flash website can be as usable (even better) than a HTML version. It just depends on what kind of websites you want to make. Deep linking for Flash is great, but it is still quite hard to implement (for noobs) in my opinion. I’m an interactive designer myself. There should be books written about it, because every Flash developer making a Flash website should adopt it. I have seen a lot of great examples of full Flash websites with deep linking that worked great. I hope this trend of better usable Flash websites will change the perception of it. I’m sick of people saying Flash should not be used for websites. At least fully. Imo if done properly a Flash website can be as usable (even better) than a HTML version. It just depends on what kind of websites you want to make.

]]> By: Shakey http://visualrinse.com/2007/02/01/enabling-deep-linking-in-flash-changing-my-mind-on-experience-sites-in-general/comment-page-1/#comment-21154 Shakey Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:46:33 +0000 http://visualrinse.com/2007/02/01/enabling-deep-linking-in-flash-changing-my-mind-on-experience-sites-in-general/#comment-21154 I've had a rudimentary CMS serving up XML for about 18 months now, and I'm expanding it all the time. It's really a godsend to get some proper easy-to-maintain dynamic data into Flash. I'd honestly not know what I'd do without it now! Throw in some deep-linking and implement the browser's back button as best we can (hell, even have Flash body text selectable) and we find that 100% Flash sites are once again viable. I even think Googlebot is starting to get inside Flash and index the text stored therein. If that's the case then we're really on a roll! I’ve had a rudimentary CMS serving up XML for about 18 months now, and I’m expanding it all the time. It’s really a godsend to get some proper easy-to-maintain dynamic data into Flash. I’d honestly not know what I’d do without it now!

Throw in some deep-linking and implement the browser’s back button as best we can (hell, even have Flash body text selectable) and we find that 100% Flash sites are once again viable.

I even think Googlebot is starting to get inside Flash and index the text stored therein. If that’s the case then we’re really on a roll!

]]> By: Brian http://visualrinse.com/2007/02/01/enabling-deep-linking-in-flash-changing-my-mind-on-experience-sites-in-general/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Brian Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:58:44 +0000 http://visualrinse.com/2007/02/01/enabling-deep-linking-in-flash-changing-my-mind-on-experience-sites-in-general/#comment-11 I agree wholeheartedly. These new libraries have been the only reason why I'd consider doing 100% Flash site, too. The only things I'm still worried about are truly allowing Google to get into content for crawling and searching purposes, and building Flash sites that have frequently updated data (especially integrating with some sort of CMS). Perhaps the solution relies then on a CMS which, in the background, is publishing XML files that Flash loads for its content. I agree wholeheartedly. These new libraries have been the only reason why I’d consider doing 100% Flash site, too. The only things I’m still worried about are truly allowing Google to get into content for crawling and searching purposes, and building Flash sites that have frequently updated data (especially integrating with some sort of CMS). Perhaps the solution relies then on a CMS which, in the background, is publishing XML files that Flash loads for its content.

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