RE: Least Power, Deep Linking and Adobe Flash

Hi Noah and www-tag,

There's quite a bit of work going on in the area of improving
searchability of SWF and other content types, although I don't know the
technical details. I'm off on vacation for a few weeks, but if you need
more technical details, I'll try to find someone who can reply more
timely than I.

In general, though, a process for indexing objects needs to parse and
interpret each object; you can improve searchability by doing a better
job of parsing and interpreting what's there, but in some cases you also
need to annotate the material with additional information specifically
for searching.

Larry


> -----Original Message-----
> From: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com [mailto:noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:52 AM
> To: www-tag@w3.org
> Cc: Larry Masinter
> Subject: Least Power, Deep Linking and Adobe Flash
> 
> The Adobe announcement regarding searchable Flash [1] and related
> announements from Google are interesting in relation to TAG work on
the
> Rule of Least Power [3], Deep Linking [4] and Web Application State
> management.  It's my impression that the SWF indexers are not
restricted
> to a static search for text strings in .SWF files, but that they
actually
> execute at least some script dynamically and simulate some
interactions
> with the application.  Not sure about that though.
> 
> Noah
> 
> [1]
>
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/swf_searchability.html
> [2]
> http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-
> indexing.html
> [3] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/leastPower.html
> [4] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/deeplinking-20030911
> [5] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/issues/60
> 
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