4
Jul
2008
Google & Yahoo are ready to search Flash files
It is about time someone in Adobe stood up and fixed the oldest disadvantage in Flash. Finally, Google and Yahoo caches will be able to adequately parse the contents of SWF Flash files and retrieving text values from graphically advanced objects.
Developers such as my self who are boggled by Flash capabilities and at the same time annoyed by the disadvantages of setting up a highly functional webpage only to face the inevitability of fighting browsers and client settings were forced to find other means of providing the infamous crawlers with the content that could not be retrieved from the compiled Flash executable.
Here are some facts that one might find interesting:
1. The new improvement can be applied to every version of the SWF format. [Both old and new].
2. Developers do not need to modify their existent project to make the content more searchable, the information will be available at the get go.
3. Google has already began the rollout process of the new searchable SWF capability.
4. At the moment the searching capabilities only affects the text base interior of the SWF file. Currently there is no logic that focuses on the graphical [images] aspect of the infrastructure.
Overall the new changes spell faster, better search results when it comes to working with flash. The long despised draw back can finally be forgotten and a new age of vibrant high dimensional applications is waiting to make their mark on the web.
1
Dec
2005
Silly mathematical evolution
If you want to impress your friends with your abilities try the following:
Claim that you have eleven fingers; in addition claim that you can prove this fact right in front of them.
Starting at your left hand count your fingers:
- One, two, three, four, five…
- Move on to your right hand and count off the remaining fingers:
- Six, seven, eight, nine, ten…
- Surprised by this obvious outcome claim that you have to repeat the exercise because something must have gone wrong while you were counting.
- Starting at your left hand again [but this time beginning at ten], count your fingers backwards.
- Ten, nine, eight, seven, six…
- Stop – point out that there are additional five fingers on the other hand; making the total eleven.
“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality” Albert Einstein
