With the launch of Adobe new AIR (Adobe Integrated runtime) and Google Gears it would seem the web is coming off-line, indeed you might have been surprised at launch of 2 similar applications a week apart in truth Google and Adobe have been collaborating on the data storage system used in both Gears and AIR (formally Apollo) since Apollo alpha release when it emerged it did not have any DB support.
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I have run an update to this post on my blog timnash.co.uk: Does Flash SEO still suck?
Nothing gets up the semantic web developer lobby noses more then the bane of their lives Flash. After spending months developing perfectly semantic well formed XML compliant HTML some upstart art herbet comes along and ruins their day by showing the boss his latest web site. No amounts of appeals about it won’t be searchable or accessible will help. The lure of flash is to great for many companies and while you may be saying its not accessible the boss is pointing to large corporate sites like Marks and Spencers and Starbucks are using it and ultimately you will loose the battle, but wait this story is not over the Arty farty herbert is a web designer and hasn’t got a clue what your talking about when you mention htaccess and so you end up having to actually launch this monstrous baby, sounding familiar?
Adobe Flash (formally Macromedia) is a great tool for developing highly artistic multimedia applications, it has the accessibility and searchability of a brick. If you are serious about getting organic rankings the only advice is stay away from Flash, I mean it stop reading this post it will not help!
Still here? You either failed to read my last sentence or are being forced into this satanic world so lets get on with trying to make flash searchable. Read the rest of this entry »
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