We here at squidder have a love/hate relationship with scrollbars. Partly because, while seemingly simple, they can overly complicated very quickly. 

So when we wrote our latest scrollbar class, we decided to try out scrollRect. Seemed pretty strait-forward -- just pass in a rectangle and it takes care of all the masking, offset and everything. Way more efficient than setting a mask and then moving that about... or so we thought. (cue dramatic crescendo)

No, seriously. One of the best ways to see what to do (and what not to do) is to just take a look at what other people are doing. And there may be no better place to do that than at freshairapps.com. Regular expression checker anyone?

And yes, I feel bad for writing that headline.

But what if you've got an extremely complex site, with many sections, pages and drill downs that you want to make accessible? One option is to simply spit out all the content, no matter how long, into that same div. Yes, that will get indexed by search engines, but not only does it make the page you're loading very large, it also doesn't link users directly to the content they searched for.

That's where SWFAddress and mod_rewrite come in. Full deets after the jump.