alot of toys are accessible, indexible and compatible?
does that define it as a toy?
ill give the indexable...thats a problem.
accessible. Yes they are accessible, its up to the developer to ensure this. Frames arent accessible either.
compatible with what? there flash players for everything: linux, palm OS, hand held devices that run Window CE. Nokia has a flash player for some of thier phones. Flash runs better cross platform that HMTL?! you dont have to code it differently for IE and NS.
are you koo koo? yes...
are you bitter? yes...
do you hate flash? yes...
your ARE TOY!
This is a major issue...fften, as previously stated, you can use meta tags to describe the sites content but its apparently not always reliable.
Perhaps this can be handled by the developer. When you want to code a site in flash where the back button works you pass your flash actions through javascript which is stored in a hidden frame. When the user clicks on the back button that frame is refreshed and the javascript in the frame triggers flash to load the previous page. you can see an example of this on a site developed by Robert Penner(google search him). If a flash site has a companion html frame on everypage perhaps it would be indexable. This obviously not a perfect solution and adds more work but...it can be done. Also, what if the flash application output such a file for use in flash sites...
Can anyone shed some light on 'how' the search engines index pages?
Its just as easy to maintain a flash site as it is an html site. Ive seen cases where the flash is easier to maintain. In flash, like DHTML, you have the ability to layer things. The problem with most HTML sites is everytime I go to a new page, the entire site reloads, that is absurd. In flash you can load your navigation in once, it will be persistant. You dont have to 'include' your nav in everypage your build, thats stupid too. Flash also provides for a better seperation between design and content. Flash requests data or content in url encoded or XML form and can then format that content in anyway. The jsp, asp programmer doesnt need to know how that content will be presented.(ie. color, font size etc...).
This makes for a more efficient process. Instead of HTML programmers and middleware programmers working off of the same files stepping on each others toes.
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alot of toys are accessible, indexible and compatible? does that define it as a toy? ill give the indexable...thats a problem. accessible. Yes they are accessible, its up to the developer to ensure this. Frames arent accessible either. compatible with what? there flash players for everything: linux, palm OS, hand held devices that run Window CE. Nokia has a flash player for some of thier phones. Flash runs better cross platform that HMTL?! you dont have to code it differently for IE and NS. are you koo koo? yes... are you bitter? yes... do you hate flash? yes... your ARE TOY!
This is a major issue...fften, as previously stated, you can use meta tags to describe the sites content but its apparently not always reliable. Perhaps this can be handled by the developer. When you want to code a site in flash where the back button works you pass your flash actions through javascript which is stored in a hidden frame. When the user clicks on the back button that frame is refreshed and the javascript in the frame triggers flash to load the previous page. you can see an example of this on a site developed by Robert Penner(google search him). If a flash site has a companion html frame on everypage perhaps it would be indexable. This obviously not a perfect solution and adds more work but...it can be done. Also, what if the flash application output such a file for use in flash sites... Can anyone shed some light on 'how' the search engines index pages?
Its just as easy to maintain a flash site as it is an html site. Ive seen cases where the flash is easier to maintain. In flash, like DHTML, you have the ability to layer things. The problem with most HTML sites is everytime I go to a new page, the entire site reloads, that is absurd. In flash you can load your navigation in once, it will be persistant. You dont have to 'include' your nav in everypage your build, thats stupid too. Flash also provides for a better seperation between design and content. Flash requests data or content in url encoded or XML form and can then format that content in anyway. The jsp, asp programmer doesnt need to know how that content will be presented.(ie. color, font size etc...). This makes for a more efficient process. Instead of HTML programmers and middleware programmers working off of the same files stepping on each others toes.