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How can we pull protocols and standards into FLEX? How to build a different kind of mashup.
Note taking application demo…..<< demo connection down >> This always makes me feel better because I used to spend so many hours setting up travel internet demos and even after all the work you’d still have some problems. Even here in the heart of Silicon Valley the internet … still has shortcomings.
Hey, good job with a composed resurrection of his connection and presentation…
but…I’m lost.
As a non-developer it’s often hard to know if I’m lost due to stupidity or just being unfamiliar with the particular application background and/or code to understand.
I think usually the case is that the presenters are SO familiar with the background and their own tools and acronyms that most presentations to developers are accessed by only a few who have experience with the tools.
ActionScript 3 APIs libraries – he’s not got much time to describe … go here to find them.
After comments by search engines about the difficulties indexing FLASH elements I’m concerned that Adobe is not thinking broadly enough about how the FLEX development will index properly. Ultimately search indexing is the key to the success of most web based projects so I’d like to see a LOT more concern about how hard it still is to get FLASH properly indexed. Could FLEX projects wind up stranded due to heavy reliance on intergrating the presentation with FLASHesque items?
UPDATE: They think FLEX will solve some of the Flash indexing problems, since FLEX output is in HTML form.
Joe Duck 
Joe,
I spoke at MashupU on the session on Flex 2 + Mashups. 🙂
On the indexing, you can add meta-data directly into Flex applications both SWF and HTML like so:
Adobe Flex 2 Application
http://www.adobe.com/flex
unknown
unknown
EN
The Flash Player now exposes meta-data in the SWF file header via an open published standard. We have been working with Google and Yahoo and they both now read meta-data within SWF files. The data is stored as RDF zlib compressed in the SWF file like so:
application/x-shockwave-flash
checkintest!
c’est magnifique!
http://www.adobe.com/flex
it r0x0rs
Franks Beans
Flexy Frank
EN
klingon
Dec 16, 2005
Hope this helps. Please feel free to contact me directly for comments, concerns, or questions. Always happy to help.
Ted Patrick – Flex Evangelist
Ahhh tag removal in your comments. Here is the encoded version…
MXML MetaData:
<metadata> <title>Adobe Flex 2 Application</title> <description>http://www.adobe.com/flex</description> <publisher>unknown</publisher> <creator>unknown</creator> <language>EN</language> </metadata>
Injected SWF Header RDF:
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=’http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#’> <rdf:Description rdf:about=” xmlns:dc=’http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1′> <dc:format>application/x-shockwave-flash</dc:format> <dc:title>checkintest!</dc:title> <dc:description> <rdf:Alt> <rdf:li xml:lang=’fr-fr’>c’est magnifique!</rdf:li> <rdf:li xml:lang=’x-default’>http://www.adobe.com/flex< /rdf:li> <rdf:li xml:lang=’en-us’>it r0x0rs</rdf:li> </rdf:Alt> </dc:description> <dc:publisher>Franks Beans</dc:publisher> <dc:creator>Flexy Frank</dc:creator> <dc:language>EN</dc:language> <dc:language>klingon</dc:language> <dc:date>Dec 16, 2005</dc:date> </rdf:Description> </rdf:RDF>
Thanks for updating Ted – sorry for the late approval but WordPress put your comments in moderation, perhaps due to markup but not sure.