Tuesday, November 16, 2004

RESTful Flash. In response to my question -- Can rich Internet apps be web-friendly? -- Macromedia's Kevin Lynch has put together an example showing how to achieve RESTful Flash: This weekend I created an example showing how rich internet applications can display their current state in the URL as the user interacts locally. This enables a user to bookmark a particular state in the local application, and also enables rich internet applications to be composed with others through REST. I've also posted the source code for the example, so you can see how it works. If you're developing applications in Flash or Flex I encourage you to display useful state information in this way so others can easily integrate and leverage your application with theirs across the internet. [Kevin Lynch] ... [Jon's Radio] this has profound implications for enhanced usability by reducing the memory load by using natural bookmarks to interupted tasks such as eLearning -- BL 9:44:45 AM      Google It!.