[SWFObject] SWFAddress and Flex 2

[Rostislav Hristov]

> awesome... i have been working on my own version, but i hit some
> issues with it, and was talking to kevin newman (the guy who wrote
> the unfocus history keeper version) to try and get him to update it
> to add a couple of features I wanted.

Thanks! The trick is well known and a dedicated version for Flash can
improve lots of websites.

> it looks like you nailed all the features, though... page title, link
> + back button that is.

So far these seem to work well in my IE and FF, but a few more browser
versions and flash players should be tested.

> it would be cool to make it work (at least partially) in safari...
> kevin came up with a way of checking the history.length to see when
> the user navigates in safari, so maybe you could work some of that in?

I can isolate the features that get broken in Safari and Opera so that
they can be added lately if they're doable.

> another thing to consider, is building SEO stuff into this... ideally
> the site would be fully indexable by google and also mobile devices
> that don't support flash or javascript as well... any plans on
> working on stuff in that area?

Probably some serverside code will have to come in for google indexing
and non-js clients. User agent detection or url rewriting should be
investigated. It's an interesting topic for me and I'm open for
discussions :)


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> On Oct 11, 2006, at 2:44 PM, Rostislav Hristov wrote:
>
> > Hi Geoff and everyone on the list,
> >
> > I'm currently working on a typical flash website and I thought that it
> > will be great if it supports bookmarking and navigation using the
> > browser's back and forward buttons. Recently I wrote something similar
> > for an Ajax app and now I've made it compatible with the Flash Player.
> > Since SWFObject is my choice for Flash embedding I've decided to
> > integrate my script with it and to give it a similar name.
> >
> > The first demo is avalable at http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/flash/
> >
> > I've used SWFObject v2.0 as a base and I did some tricks to extend it
> > at runtime so that no additional JS code is needed for SWFAddress. The
> > script uses ExternalInterface and therefore it's only compatible with
> > FP8+. It works fine with Internet Explorer 6 and Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
> > but it fails in Opera and probably I will disable it for this browser.
> > I will appreciate a test report with Safari.
> >
> > I'm looking forward to add support for Flex 2 applications and I
> > wonder what are your plans in this direction.
> >
> > Best,
> > Rostislav
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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