I commented on one of your previous posting on this theme and you didn’t respond. My comment is relevant here as well so if you have the time I’d appreciate hearing your response.

I think one of the biggest challenge you will face with Laszlo is the fact that it is opaque to deep linking. You are essentially creating a walled garden of navigation within the prevailing context of a dense thicket of HTTP/HTML. This is of course the inherent problem with Flash and why it will never gain much traction.

A fundamental implications of HTTP is that it works best when everyone buys into the shared (yes, mediocre) UI mechanism of linking. This is the “good enough” principle at work again.

For example I visited Marc Canter’s blog at http://blogs.it/0100198/ and noticed the soundblox and photoblox Laszlo widgets. Schematically they represent two “island” traversal hierarchies that don’t allow me to link to an individual photo or individual track. So I can’t send a link to my buddy to check it out.

Do you have plans in the future to address this?

Cheers,
Douglass Turner
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