Jerry Don

Adobe announced that they are working with Google and Yahoo! to make Flash content more searchable.

“Adobe is teaming up with search industry leaders to dramatically improve search results of dynamic web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs). Adobe is providing optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines. This will provide more relevant automatic search rankings of the millions of RIAs and other dynamic content that run in Adobe Flash Player. Moving forward, RIA developers and rich web content producers won’t need to amend existing and future content to make it searchable—they can now be confident that it can be found by users around the globe.”

“Adobe has provided Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo! that allows their search spiders to navigate through a live SWF application as if they were virtual users. The Flash Player technology, optimized for search spiders, runs a SWF file similarly to how the file would run in Adobe Flash Player in the browser, yet it returns all of the text and links that occur at any state of the application back to the search spider, which then appears in search results to the end user.”

Adobe has published the SWF searchability FAQ on the Developer Connection Center.

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“Building a successful application in Adobe Flex involves many roles, each with a different focus and requiring distinct strengths. Teams are often comprised of designers and developers who assume different roles during the lifecycle of creating a successful Flex application.”

A great UI article from EffectiveUI. Check the link here to see the multi-focused team approach.

In the earlier versions of Cairngorm you need to dispatch events through the CairngormEventDispatcher instance. Now self dispatching events are added in Cairngorm2.2.

Old method

var evt:NavigateEvent = new NavigateEvent();
// Dispatch through the dispatcher
CairngormEventDispatcher.getInstance().dispatchEvent(evt);

New method

var evt:NavigateEvent = new NavigateEvent();
// Event dispatch itself
evt.dispatch();

These are the changes between Cairngorm 2.2 and Cairngorm 2.1(from adobe labs)

• Removed dependency on Flex Data Services (fds.swc) - externalised to Cairngorm Enterprise
• Flex SDK SWCs are no longer linked into Cairngorm.swc (produces a smaller cairngorm.swc)
• Added support for setting remote credentials
• Fixed bug with Web services not loading the WSDL (no longer any need to call loadWSDL() explicitly)
• ModelLocator interface has been deprecated. Added com.adobe.cairngorm.model.IModelLocator
• Added deprecation metadata for compiler support
• Added dispatch() helper method to CairngormEvent class
• Controller added to CairngormEventDispatcher with weak reference
• Added removeCommand to FrontController
• Made commands protected in FrontController (was private)

Changes between Cairngorm 2.2.1 and Cairngorm 2.2

• Changed ServiceLocator to reflect moving of classes to LiveCycle Data Services (fds.swc)