Integrating Flash with HTML, JavaScript and Ajax
- FlashForward, New York City, July 2005
  - Christian Cantrell, Mike Chambers

Integrating Flash with HTML, JavaScript and Ajax

FlashForward, New York City, July 2005

Christian Cantrell, Mike Chambers

Integrating Flash with HTML, JavaScript and Ajax
Why integrate Flash / HTML / JavaScript
Example
- MXNA Category Click Report
Programming : Flash / JavaScript Integration Kit
- What is it?
  - Supported Browsers
  - Supported Data Types
- OS Flash
- Licensing
- Getting the Kit
- Using the Kit
- Known Issues
  - Bugs
  - Circular references
  - Variables with spaces in their names
  - Theoretical size limitations
    - 65K for FlashVars
    - 40K for LocalConnection
  - Undefined properties in JavaScript will probably not be serialized
  - Performance with debug player in Safari
Linking : Deep Linking in RIAs
- Example (MXNA Category Click Report)
- Why it’s important
  - REST
  - Searchability
- The anchor method
- The query string method
Sharing : View Source
- Why?
- Why view source is better in Flash than HTML
- Examples
- Adding view source to Flash
- Adding view source to Flex
- Generating view source