> The first point is not so important for crawling, but the 
> second is. Parsing a binary format, AND modifying it to 
fit 
> the local copy is just a nightmare to do. I don't think 
> flash parsing will be implemented soon, and I even don't 
> know is this will be done in the future. W3C has 
> standardized a much more compatible and pretty vector 
> format, SVG, not yet able to implement media (sound, 
> interaction) things, but wait and see..
> 
hehe - well, for better or worse, there are a great many 
things used in the web technology that are oft used by many 
web developers that aren't part of the W3C standards...