deep linking in flex
So I was looking into deep-linking, which is the practice of getting flash files to use the browser back button so that users feel comfortable navigating the app. Most of the time, hitting the back button will just go back to the last ‘page’ viewed and then when the ‘forward’ button is hit your dumped back at the beginning of whatever it is the flash was directing you to do.
Well, with deep linking, the url actually changes while the app. just keeps going (using fake #anchors). Now this means that for every single goddamn ’state’ you now have to program in a parser to take in the url and use that as the control for what state is being displayed, but looking at it now that really doesn’t seem like a bad idea. You can just throw a user halfway through a process, or deny them access to parts, but what I thought was really interesting was the ability to ‘re-use’ code…
Instead of including a file in multiple spots, just send the user to the same goddamn state! then use the URL to decide where the page will lead to next. This I assume will come in handy at some point… I hope…
