Web crawlers and flash/flex content

I have been discussing this question on flex-india since last week and saw many and verity of responses in developer’s and client’s point of view and saw some blog reactions to it as by Abdul Qabiz. Thought I would post my point of view on this topic whether search engines should index SWF content or not.

There are mainly two aspects to this question first developer and second customer/businesses, my opinion is kind of mixed of both. There is valid questions raised during this discussion as “RIAs are application not the content, hence cannot be seen as content holder as HTML. Does your desktop search index your desktop applications?”

First half of this statement is absolutely correct that