Finally, the day has come, actually a month ago to be precise, search engine companies has admitted believes they are able to index contents inside the SWF of a site. This is cool, why? Let’s say you are building an entire site in flash and you are not sure if it will be search-able by website surfers. No worries now, why? Look at the article from : http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9224&tag=nl.e539
Excerpts from the site :
…Adobe’s help, Google can now better read the content on sites that use Adobe Flash technology, helping users find more relevant information when conducting…
And besides that, if you are looking into deep-linking your Flash sites, something like 2Advanced’s site. You can do it with SWFAddress!
It has been a while that we see much breakthrough, except because we always see breakthrough in Papervision3D, this time around, it’s really something magnificent and different from the usual stuff we see, and not sure if it’s really made out of papervision, or some effects branch. This is the genius from Japan, known as Roxik, which popularize the ‘dancing 3d avatar’ some time ago and got Pepsi Japan to acquire his engine in their campaign in creating custom avatar and dance to it. Really really cool. Even his minimalistic portfolio approach already can stun you to death.
The unique thing here is :
- He doesn’t seem to release his source code publicly.
- The engine has some sort of massive optimisation! And includes Depth of Field as well! Whoa!
- The engine known by him as : Sharikura.
Gaia – Flash Frameworks for Adobe Flash
This is actually an exciting news for developers and designers alike that is always racing with times.
But in fact, it’s much more of a bigger joy for designer that is looking to create a flash site that follows industry’s best practice as close as possible, including deep linking! Okay enough of talking, what is this? Let me summarize it in one phrase. With Gaia :
You will be able to create a sophisticated (REALLY) flash site with almost (really!) no scripting required!
Think I’m a liar? Watch the demo video at here. I was really stunned when I always spent a day at developing the backend for the site to work normally, full screen, with swfobject and all other plugins, but with this frameworks. Definitely I’ll be pumped up to try this on another new campaign site. Available for both AS2/AS3 projects. Looks inferior at first, but believe me, watch the video and you’ll truly understand the power of this tool.
Why should you use this? Is it that good you say? Look at the few sites below that the “pros” are using it
