Phil Rabin of CBC Radio 3 has kindly written a guest post on his experience creating a fantastic Web interface for the station that uses Flash for audio, but a full HTML experience that maintains state from page to page.

CBC Radio 3 is a community, radio station and user-generated independent music library which is a small department of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. When the CBC Radio 3 web team was called upon to rebuild the site we were confronted with the technical problem of having an uninterrupted music experience for our users. The old design of the site (see image) achieved this by embedding a flash player in the body with the content being served through a statically positioned iframe in the center of the page. Radio 3’s content offerings were outgrowing the design so we went with a full page 1000px-wide layout with the player resting in the page. This created an obvious hurdle being that with a fresh page load comes a bad listening experience like myspace where a single wrong click breaks the audio…

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