Will Flex Gumbo befriend the Web-crawlers?
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Nov-26-2009
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Everyone knows that, Adobe Flex is the first tool of its kind that had the capability to integrate both design and coding. The uniqueness of the above factor was highly appreciated by designers and developers. The popularity of Flash is on the rise and myriad developers have switched to it. Flex is implemented in the development of several powerful web services like Scribd, Slideshare and in the meantime, it is also put to a very comprehensive use.
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For instance, many corporates deployed a business management application into their Intranets, created using Flex builder. Such kind of applications, sometimes featured a dashboard to support data visualization and the sweet part is that both Adobe Flex Builder and its SDK, contained a charting component to manage the basic data visualization needs. Considering its break-through advantages, Flex builders have a minimal disadvantage - the unfriendliness of the flash components to the web search engines. Every iteration of Flex has shown an dramatical increase in designing power, rich features and unbelievable capabilities. But what's next on Flex?
Flex 4.0, iteration much-awaited
Recently, Adobe has announced that Flex 4.0 Gumbo will be released soon. Adobe has promised a boost in accelerated development and horizontal platform enhancements. But among the development community, the anticipation for a search-engine friendly flash component is also growing up. And we know, why SEO practitioners are worried about Flash. The basic problem with Flash is that every search engine struggles to understand it, and more probably, would never comprehend it in near future also. Flash components contain logic and are capable of taking inputs from the visitor, but search engines were designed only to take care of static content. Actually, Flash is a running program, so it's very hard to analyze than a HTML code. Adobe Dreamweaver, which is a leading development tool that embeds the Flash components in web pages with code, ultimately fails to create a path of accessibility for web-crawlers and cannot handle the components easily. Some experts say that instead of embedding the default code developers can use the hand-coded Flash components with HTML content before attempting to insert them. The HTML content can be search-optimized as if there was no Flash, while the flash delivers an improved user-experience.
Flex Gumbo as the perfect tool
Adobe says that the new Flex Gumbo is being designed as a perfect tool for both designers and developers and will accelerate the application development. And it is true that Flash animations are a big way to deliver complex content because they allow more content in tiny space, without cracking a page design. For techies and tech websites, it is a rich application to create slide shows or movies to explain a difficult product. At the other end, entertainment sites have a deadly need for multimedia rich components and Flash is the perfect one for them.
Anticipations about Flex Gumbo
Search Engine friendly, like never before.
Clean design to cooperate with variety of browsers.
Easy design and deployment for special screen readers and mobile phones
As usually, Standards compliance
Characteristics to cooperate with the web-spiders, robots, crawlers, scutters, etc
Before acquisition by Adobe systems, Macromedia introduced a flash-friendly search engine application. In theory, using the SDK, search engines can decompress the Flash files, parse the content, and index it in search engine databases. But they are not perfect, because, even if all search engine companies deployed that SDK immediately, the troubles could have continued. That's because the algorithms which were used to index and rank the HTML content will be applied to the Flash components as well. So, in the light of this, search engine friendly Flash components will be the great news for everyone. Will the Flex 4.0 Gumbo do that?
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Article Source :
http://www.articleseen.com/Article_Will Flex Gumbo befriend the Web-crawlers?_5959.aspx
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Author Resource :
Dot Com Infoway is a software development company specialized in Flex Application Development, To know more about the company's apps development visit Application development.
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Keywords :
flex application development,
Category :
Computers
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Software
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