Archive for July, 2008
Thoughts on Fully Searchable Flash
[update] There does appear to be a FAQ available here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/swf_searchability.html — doesn’t go into a lot of technical detail though.
OK, the news today is that Adobe is working with Google and Yahoo! to make sure they are able to index SWF content fully. That’s pretty exciting and a real step in the good direction but it does leave me with a bunch of questions and concerns.
Reportedly Google and Yahoo! have been given a ’special, search-engine optimized Flash Player’ that is able to index all data, not just static text as was the case with the Search Engine SDK Macromedia already released back in 2002. Google implemented that SDK which meant you were able to do search queries specifically on Flash content e.g. “peter elst” filetype:swf.
Flash Lite running on the iPhone
I got an email from Thomas Joos tonight saying he had something I might be interested in, and you’re not wrong there!
Using the b.Tween framework (currently in beta) which in turn uses barefootsoft’s EyeGT technology they were able to port mobile content, in this case a Flash Lite app to the iPhone.
While that does not mean a Flash Player on the iPhone (yet, I told Steve I wouldn’t buy one until they do support it) at least it opens things up for Flash Lite developers to move into the iPhone market and start deploying apps.
Now the bigger question, can I get that to run on my iPod Touch? ;)
You can read more about it here: http://www.thomasjoos.be/2008/06/30/porting-flash-lite-to-the-iphone-rock-werchter-mobile/
