SWFAddress: Deep linking support for Flash / Flex / AJAX content
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Deep linking and browser navigation between pages in Flash websites is a hard nut to crack using ExternalInterface. But this can be easily done by SWFAddress
SWFAddressis a simple utility that lets your browser catch all the page links for a full-fledged flash website, allowing back button support, bookmarking, social sharing for the flash content. SWFAddress is a JavaScript based code that lets users create permanent links for several sections of a flash website. It sets the hash (anchor) link path from your Flash content, offering back button support.
SWFAddress – Features
SWFAddress provides deep linking for flash websites using the ExternalInterface functionality(Supported from Flash Player 8). Some of the prominent features of SWFAddress:
- Enables Back, Forward, Refresh/Reload buttons for Flash content
- Creates URLs with page titles which can be sent via email or IM
- Allows easy bookmarking of flash content
- Supports major browsers like IE 6, IE 7.0, Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Safari 2.04, Opera 9.02
- If you’re using SWFObject, it is easy to implement deep links and get back button support through SWFAddress
- With SWFAddress, Flash is more SEO-friendly for RIA-based websites
We can also do deep linking in AJAX and Flex applications using SWFAddress.
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