Making Flash Sites Easy

Written by Chris on September 21, 2007 – 2:11 pm -

OK, so a lot of people probably already know about this nifty little javascript but I didn't so I thought I'd give a quick mention.

I was talking with a friend of mine earlier today about flash sites and what happens when a search engine bot tries to index them - presumably they can't access the content of the flash movies directly and as such content gets missed, right?

Well, though this is probably true the SWFObject (http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/) javascript gets around this very neatly by rewriting <div> tags to show flash content if the plugin exits or just offing up a html alternative if you don't have flash or even javascript installed (or turned on).

This neat solution means that any search engine bot that can't deal with flash fully can very easily get relevant information from the page for its indexes, and also any visitor using a non-flash browser or who doesn't have the flash plugin installed can still view the site to a usable extent.

Nice work, and thanks to Jon for pointing it out!

You can visit Jon's sites here:

http://www.welshpanoramas.com/

http://www.nosstazenith.co.uk/

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