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Yahoo! Design Patterns Library has a set of “stencils” available to mock up your next great RIA project! The stencils are available in OmniGraffle, Visio, PDF, PNG and SVG formats. So you can use them with Illustrator or Photoshop / Gimp as well.

They have included stencils for: Ad Units, Calendars, Carousels, Charts and Tables, UI Controls, Form Elements, Grids, Menus and Buttons, Mobile – General, Mobile – iPhone, Navigation and Pagination, OS Elements, Placeholder Text, Screen Resolutions, Tabs & Windows and Containers.

That’s quite a lot – all available under Creative Commons.

And if you were building Flex RIAs, here’s an article on using these stencils along with Flash Catalyst to churn out kickass Flex Apps with almost zero coding!

Enjoy!

Adobe is teaming up with Google and Yahoo! to improve indexing of dynamic content in rich internet applications made with Flash. This means Google and Yahoo! will be able to crawl your site if you have a Flash/Flex/OpenLaszlo based application that pulls content from database.

Here are some excerpts from the press release.

Adobe is providing optimized Adobe® Flash® Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines. This will provide more relevant automatic search rankings of the millions of RIAs and other dynamic content that run in Adobe Flash Player. Moving forward, RIA developers and rich Web content producers won’t need to amend existing and future content to make it searchable — they can now be confident it can be found by users around the globe.

Google has already begun to roll out Adobe Flash Player technology incorporated into its search engine.

Yahoo! also expects to deliver improved Web search capabilities for SWF applications in a future update to Yahoo! Search.

This surely is a great development!

Update:

OpenLaszlo blog has a great post on why this is not so big a news!