[ILUG] OT: My "school task" website finally up

[paul at clubi.ie]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Kae Verens wrote:

> one thing I /will/ say about the flash is that it's a terrible idea 
> to use flash as links - see your site in Links - that's how Google 
> sees it (unless they engineers have been busy and the engine can 
> read flash now).

Google can now parse and index Flash blobs (I've both been told, and 
seen). To what extent exactly, I don't know.

It's obviously impossibly for Google to provide links *into* flash 
blobs - there is (AFAIK) no general URI scheme for the contents 
inside flash. Sadly, bits of the web keep disappearing every day - 
most people don't notice, because watching Youtube is far more 
important to them.

(You can use the GNOME 'totem' movie-player's Youtube plugin to 
search, browse and watch Youtube, in a far more performant manner 
than any of the Flash browser plugins, on any platform, if anyone 
cares).

regards,
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