Don’t you find it frustrating to browse Flash sites because you can’t use the browser’s back/forward button or send your friend to a certain section? The solution to this problem would be SWFaddress — a small Javascript library that lets you create virtual URLs for Flash and Ajax. SWFaddress has been around since 2006, and surprisingly not all Flash sites are utilizing this tool. In this post, I’ve collected 20 sites (Flash and Ajax) that are using SWFaddress.
Protect 7-7
PMA
Kraft – Food & Family
BBH
Semisture
Umbro
Mafia 2
One to Three
Werkstette
Raff
RW2 Studios
Multiadaptor
Hoodie Remix
Grow
Salinas
Smokey Bones
Bergh
Coca Cola Zero
Howarths (Ajax)
Polargold (Ajax)
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Nice collection. Good to see others getting on the SWFaddress bandwagon. I never build a Flash site without it now.
One thing you overlooked was that SWFaddress makes Flash truly search engine friendly, enabling search engine spiders to crawl every “page” of the Flash site and index them accordingly.
I think that part of the problem with low adoption rate might be that SWFaddress does have a bit of a learning curve associated with it and Flash designers lacking a development or programming background might be a bit intimidated.
Ellen
Thank you, Nick!
Wow, that’s an really interesting article. I actually like flash websites pretty much, but didn’t know about SWFaddresses before.
And a really beautiful collection of sites, too :-)
Rostislav Hristov
Thanks for collecting these. I added a link to this page to the SWFAddress Resources page.
Bernhard H.
Another thing I dislike about flash pages: You can’t usually open links in new tabs. That’s even a problem when using only some flash buttons.
But nice collection.
Zeyar Wai Phyo
Wow. Great!
I’ve never heard of SWFaddress before.
Thanks alot buddy.
Mark Stark
Hi Nick, I really like you work! Please post a new tutorial like the picture flow gallary! That would be great!
Almog
Very nice thanks
Elizabeth K. Barone
I wonder how SWFaddress can be used for SEO. It would be interesting to experiment with, since lack of SEO is one of the biggest reasons I don’t use Flash to build websites.
aledesign.it
A wonderful selection. Really nice. This js is an important thing. Thanks for this post!
acı cehre
very nice web design. thanks the share
Em
Beautiful collection. SWFAddress has been very helpful.
@Bernhard H. – Yes, flash pages can open links in new tabs / windows. It hast to be predefined by the developer though.
Roxanne
Thanks, I never knew about this! Great collection, by-the-way!
Simon
This will probably be pretty useful in the near future. I’m currently working on a website that uses quite some flash, but this was one of the problems that bothered us the most. Now we have a simple solution, thanks!
website designers stoke
This is something I have always criticised flash for yet it has been around for 3 years. Excellent post and information. Thanks!
The Dave
I guess so few websites use SWFAdress because it’s pretty hard to implement in big projects. Oftentimes you have to sacrifice gimmicks (like animations, transitions) to make it work properly.
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nice collection
thanks for sharing
Ghislain
Nice !
We use it on every flash projects and this is a powerful tool for SEO or for smartphone. We can generate HTML version easily for iphone (for example) !!!
Unleashed - Portland Web Design
Oh, now this is a trick I haven’t heard of yet. Good stuff I’ll make sure to use it in any flash sites I make.
somecallmejosh
This seems like a great tool, but I’ve heard that it doesn’t fully work in IE for Mac (I’ve never tested this, however). Also for consideration is SWFObject (http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/), which allows for the replication of Flash content in the same HTML where the flash is embedded.
manuel
Thanks everytime a great collection :) thx
Eko Subagio
Amazing, great compilation and info
Anna
Thanks for the info. I think I will find use for this tool. Anna :)
FDZ
Thx for the info, this really great & i didn’t thought we could’ve do that before, thx again :)
Peace..
janissh
Thanks for collection!!!
Jeb
Thanks for the information!
But you have not explained how to implement this, it will be great if you do so…
gooddell
nice pict
Simran
Nice collection.Gives me some ideas on ways to improve my own design.
Ryan
I used swfobject in http://www.nervous-energy.eu after seeing it at http://www.383project.com/ – it’s very nice.
FreelancerCrowd
Wow, thanks for reminding me about that. I somehow completely forgot about this JS :/
Kaplang
thanks for the interesting post :)
cennet
Thanks What’s the problem here? Google could bury the meager profit number from even the biggest media conglomerates.
cennetevi
these are awesome!
thanks for putting in the effort to get this list together
Derek Hildenbrand
Thanks for the links… great resource for website design!
Don
I think is great to have this solution for websites using Flash or fully done using AJAX or JS. Thanks a lot for the info
Columbus Web Design
I can’t stand flash sites but if your going to use it you better have the tool mentioned here. Just another reason not to use flash because you need all these other things to do what should be the most simple of tasks. Nice article. I almost stopped looking at the sites after the first one…kinda scary picture :P
chris
2Advanced’s website was one of the first website to use this kind of technique, I think it could be great to feature their website..http://www.2advanced.com
SORAE
WONDERFUL !!!!
Textbox
Thanks for the great post. This will be very useful in an upcoming project.
BlackBearDesign
Thanks for posting this. I had always used anchors and the # in my web address to target different areas in Flash. Never heard of SWFAddress before.
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Flash is definately going to be the future….
Cookie Creative - Graphic Design Manchester
Great collection :)
tatilkaynak.com
its really diffirent. Thanks for links!
lombok island
this is wonderfull. i like it
e11world
I still think that flash is one of those tools/technologies that will always be there and anyone who thinks otherwise should really stop lying to themselves. This article proofs that once again, flash is a great tool.
keici
Wow, really interesting effect. I would like to learn flansh.
orta
I’ve used this technique to the extreme on a project for virtualising applications, here’s my old WIP for Mac OSX : http://www.ortatherox.com/va/latest/#/mail1/safari1/
Joe
WONDERFUL !!!!
dandy
This is cool. Bookmarked and shared.
Web
Nice collection. Thanks for sharing it.
Could you please critique on my site?
Boston
I support your post.
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This is cool. thanks
Mike
this is wonderfull. i like it
mbateam
Nice resources. Thanks for sharing these great post.
oyunola
wooww.. i really liked them.. thanks..
acai
This is cool. Bookmarked and shared.
vincentdresses
喜欢你们的设计与技术，常来看看
roshankolar
Dude,
This site is awesome. I dint know swfaddresses ever existed. Im a flash developer myself, how could i miss this wonderful stuff. Thanks a lot.
michael keating
I notice quite a lot of the examples have not got a working version of deeplinking. It is a bit more complex to incorporate into a real website. http://www.succinct-tools.net/ has a working example if anyone wants to disect a real example.
Web Design
nice stuff
Web Design
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Shanning
It seems Protect 7-7’s site is taken down??? It looks interesting though.
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