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    <blockquote> <p>So is Flash usable as a website framework at all?</p> </blockquote> <p>No. Search engines are only one of the problems. (and probably the least of your problems, even).</p> <p>Other problems with flash-based websites are that the user can not</p> <ul> <li>Bookmark relevant pages, because the concept of pages does not exist. You have one url, containing your flash app.</li> <li>use external tools to parse the page and extract relevant information (microformats, for example, but search engines are another example)</li> <li>navigate the page. In a website, I expect to be able to open a link in the same window, in a new tab or in a new window. In a website I want to be able to view the content in the order that makes sense to me. I expect to be able to click back or forward in my browser. Flash makes that impossible, because everything is glued together in one big black-box application.</li> </ul> <p>Note that this is only if you attempt to use Flash for <em>everything</em>. Flash can of course be legitimately used to provide <em>content</em> (youtube is the obvious example here). But the actual website, the structure, the infrastructure that allows people to navigate your site, that can never be flash, if you want to create a website. If you want to create a web app, that's different, and Flash might work. But then you lose the advantages that websites have.</p> <p>Flash is simply not designed to create websites, and luckily <em>most</em> web developers understand that. </p>
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