Flash Search SDK: maybe someday
March 3rd, 2008
Although I was very excited the Flex Search SDK does not seem to be very useful and does not support flash player 9. Unfortunately It just supports what is presented on frame 1.This leads a lot to be desired if you use deep linking in your flash based website. My hope was to have a tool that I could execute on the currently loaded state of the SWF. A module that could be integrated with the webserver so that the state of the SWF would have changed you could execute the swf2html and create an HTML page of that state. Alas I will continue using swfaddress.com to do SEO. Maybe more fun in the future from adobe!
Flash vs Flex.
As of Flex 3, Flex now includes deep-linking support. Details here:
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_3:Feature_Introductions:_Deep_Linking
In Flex, my sense is that the deep-linking capability is integrated into Flex’s component architecture.
Since Flex came along, Adobe has stepped back on the level of prebuilt functionality that they provide to Flash developers. (Just investigate how much Flash’s AS3 components are a scaled down subset of Flash’s AS2 component set.)
Maybe Adobe will give Flash developers more love in areas like this w/ CS4 and/or FP10?
g
p.s. you link above on the string “Flex Search SDK” where I think you meant to make the string “Flash Search Engine SDK”.
A Flex Search SDK would be even more pointless than the Flash Search SDK (which is what you link to). Flex is for building applications, do you expect Google Desktop to index Photoshop, Word or any other application? If not, what would be the point of Google indexing your Flex application?
(And this argument doesn’t even get in to the other problems of indexing Flash, like actually finding Flash content that is embedded with JavaScript, making sense of something that can only make sense while executing and the fact that very few Flash sites actually contain any content).
http://blog.iconara.net/2008/01/22/this-weeks-non-issue-google-indexes-swf-files/