SWFAddress - Deep linking for Flash and Ajax

SWFAddress seems like an extremely useful utility for any Flash applications/presentations that include navigation.

“SWFAddress is a small, but powerful library that provides deep linking for Flash and Ajax. It's a developer tool, allowing creation of unique virtual URLs that can point to a website section or an application state.”

I thought this linking structure looked familiar – it looks like Adobe’s Acrobat.com uses SWFAddress for their links! For example:

https://www.acrobat.com/#/bw/BuzzwordBegin

Performing a View > Source of the above confirms this theory.

More:

“SWFAddress enables a number of important capabilities which are missing in today's rich web technologies including:

• Bookmarking in a browser or social website
• Sending links via email or instant messenger
• Finding specific content with the major search engines
• Utilizing browser history and reload buttons”

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The mindnoise.blog has a nice article on using SWFAddress to enable the browser’s Back button.