RE: Least Power, Deep Linking and Adobe Flash

Thank you, Larry.  There's no rush on this, enjoy your vacation!  When you 
get back, I think one of the critical questions to explore is:  to what 
extent do SWF files provide the necessary information declaratively?  In 
other cases, are the indexers actually executing the actionscript? Please 
pass these questions on if you are passing this query to someone else. 

> but if you need more technical details, I'll try to find 
> someone who can reply more timely than I.

As I said above, there's no rush at all.  I suggest you hold off replying 
or following up until you're back. 

Noah

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Noah Mendelsohn 
IBM Corporation
One Rogers Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
1-617-693-4036
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"Larry Masinter" <masinter@adobe.com>
08/03/2008 08:39 PM
 
        To:     <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>, <www-tag@w3.org>
        cc: 
        Subject:        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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> Noah Mendelsohn
> IBM Corporation
> One Rogers Street
> Cambridge, MA 02142
> 1-617-693-4036
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> 
> 
>

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