Version 3, last updated by judah at Oct 30 21:11 2009 UTC
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FLASH |
FLEX CAPACITOR
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| This list is features that exist in a technology without coding |
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| Navigation system that supports a Uniform Resource Identifier |
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| Hyperlink supports |
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| - navigate to an anchor by name or id |
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| - navigate to an anchor by vertical position |
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| - navigate to an application state |
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| - navigate to a state of a component |
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| - navigate and pass parameters |
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- navigate to a URL
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- strictly change parameters
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| - prompt download of a file |
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| - handle media by type |
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| - handle with Flash based media handler |
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| - pass url to browser |
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| Application Context Menu Support |
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| - Back |
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| - Forward |
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| - Reload |
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| - Bookmark this Page |
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| - Save Page As |
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| - Send Page |
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| - Copy Page Location |
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| Hyperlink Component (button, text link, image link, anchor) |
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| - Open in a new Window |
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| - Save Link As |
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| - Send Link |
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| - Copy Link Location |
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| Images |
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| - View Image |
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| - Copy Image Location |
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| - Save Image |
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| - Zoom in / out |
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| - Image Path |
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| - Image Size |
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| Media Handler |
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| - Image media handler |
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| - Audio media handler |
Quicktime |
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| - Video media handler |
Quicktime |
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| - custom file type handlers |
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| Cache Site for Offline viewing |
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| - View offline |
Gears |
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| - Cache for faster retrieval |
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| Shortened or Pretty URLs |
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| - All URL's can be shorten or compressed |
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| - Parameter length limit is removed |
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| Find on this Page Search |
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| Actions (interaction or behavior) |
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| - You don't need coding skills to use interactions |
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| - Actions are for everyone from beginner to advanced |
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| - Actions can be customized to fit any need |
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| - Actions support conditions and nested conditions |
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| - Actions are easy to read, understand and apply |
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| - Developers can easily create, extend or replace Actions |
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| - Actions panel are available in MXML and ready for tooling |
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| Page Title |
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| - Automatically updated as you navigate |
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| - Page title can use state names or aliases |
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| - Page title can be bound to any property |
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| URL Query String |
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| - Can be automatically converted to Flash query string |
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| Search Engine Compatible |
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| - Hyperlink support allows search engines to crawl sites |
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| - Hyperlinks dispatch an event for search engines |
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| - Once dynamic content is returned Flash dispatches an event in AS and JS for SEO |
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| - Can redirect from Flash to HTML or HTML to Flash based on criteria |
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| - Content can be passed to HTML Document |
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| Other Benefits |
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| - Write once run anywhere |
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| - Visually identical across multiple browsers |
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| - Architecture is designed to support a new generation of Web 3.0 websites |
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