Comments on: Ajax vs Flash Podcast http://www.killersites.com/blog/2008/ajax-vs-flash-podcast/ Real world talk about web design, programming and the business of web design. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:16:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Stefan Mischook http://www.killersites.com/blog/2008/ajax-vs-flash-podcast/#comment-162293 Stefan Mischook Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:48:40 +0000 http://www.killersites.com/blog/2008/ajax-vs-flash-podcast/#comment-162293 Thanks for the comments. Stefan Thanks for the comments.

Stefan

]]> By: Ville Väisänen http://www.killersites.com/blog/2008/ajax-vs-flash-podcast/#comment-162291 Ville Väisänen Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:27:56 +0000 http://www.killersites.com/blog/2008/ajax-vs-flash-podcast/#comment-162291 Hi! Thanks for the podcast, some good points there. Though I think you skipped maybe the most important aspect of this kind of comparision, and that's SEO (search engine optimization). Although work is being done to include contents of a flash file available for search engine spiders, it's hardly a substitute for well structured, semantic (X)HTML document in this matter. Google can't follow links inside flash movie, or see what's a heading and what's a paragraph, and thus decide what's important and what's not. So when you want best possible rankings in search engines, you're good to go with AJAX + (X)HTML code. And don't get me wrong, I'm a major flash-lover myself! I was really thrilled to find out about AJAX libraries such as Scriptaculous, Mootools and my weapon of choise, jQuery. By using these, you can include some pretty cool animated menus, database integrations etc and still get the benefits of your site being properly crawled. Plus site is accessible to more people, for example those using screen readers. And when you build your site from content up with progressive enhancement, you get site that's well accessible to mobile devices and such. (See http://alistapart.com/articles/understandingprogressiveenhancement ) OK, that's all i had to say :) Keep up the good work! -Ville V., Finland Hi! Thanks for the podcast, some good points there. Though I think you skipped maybe the most important aspect of this kind of comparision, and that’s SEO (search engine optimization). Although work is being done to include contents of a flash file available for search engine spiders, it’s hardly a substitute for well structured, semantic (X)HTML document in this matter. Google can’t follow links inside flash movie, or see what’s a heading and what’s a paragraph, and thus decide what’s important and what’s not.

So when you want best possible rankings in search engines, you’re good to go with AJAX + (X)HTML code. And don’t get me wrong, I’m a major flash-lover myself! I was really thrilled to find out about AJAX libraries such as Scriptaculous, Mootools and my weapon of choise, jQuery. By using these, you can include some pretty cool animated menus, database integrations etc and still get the benefits of your site being properly crawled. Plus site is accessible to more people, for example those using screen readers. And when you build your site from content up with progressive enhancement, you get site that’s well accessible to mobile devices and such. (See http://alistapart.com/articles/understandingprogressiveenhancement )

OK, that’s all i had to say :) Keep up the good work!

-Ville V., Finland

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