I did a talk last night on “The Evolution of the Flash Platform” at Skills Matter as part of the London Web Week. Had a nice group of people turn up from various backgrounds and all seemed very interested in seeing the direction Flash is heading in.
Tried to cover as much ground as possible within limited time talking about Flash, Flex, AIR, Flash Lite, Flash Media Server, ECMAScript / ActionScript, Adobe and open source.
Also discussed a few common misconceptions related to Flash content and SEO, deep linking and browser button support. Then moved on to showing several of the sneak peeks from earlier conferences — Flash “Next”, Pacifica, Thermo, etc.
Slideshare.net is having some problems with the Flash Player 10 beta, if you can’t see the slides above you’ll find them at the following URL:
http://www.slideshare.net/peterelst/the-evolution-of-the-flash-platform
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Very intresting talk so to see.
Would ‘ve loved to see it :)
Thanks Ronny — I think they’ll be putting a video of it online in a little while ;)
“Google and other search engines implement the Adobe Search Engine SDK which allows indexing static text in an SWF”
I can’t remember the last time I built a site that consisted of static text. SEO and Flash is still a huge issue IMO.
you’re absolutely right there Tink — I did mention that it is not a complete solution and the best approach is to use something like SWFObject and provide alternative HTML content that can be indexed by search engines.
Let’s hope they come up with some better ways of getting it to work with dynamic data.