Comments on: Flash Search SDK: maybe someday http://wadearnold.com/blog/flash/flash-search-sdk-maybe-someday The spoils of the integration of PHP and ActionScript Wed, 19 May 2010 07:10:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Theo http://wadearnold.com/blog/flash/flash-search-sdk-maybe-someday/comment-page-1#comment-19 Theo Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:26:15 +0000 http://wadearnold.com/blog/?p=13#comment-19 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/ 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/

]]> By: greg h http://wadearnold.com/blog/flash/flash-search-sdk-maybe-someday/comment-page-1#comment-18 greg h Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:19:08 +0000 http://wadearnold.com/blog/?p=13#comment-18 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". 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”.

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