On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Ralph Janke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:txwikinger@ubuntu.com">txwikinger@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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> But with search, we just want the text. Perhaps a picture or two. No<br>
> ads, no refreshes, no anything else ... just GIVE ME THE ANSWER! If we<br>
> knew they didn't have the answer, we wouldn't have gone there in the<br>
> first place. And, somehow, not having the answer almost becomes the<br>
> fault of the page creator. <sigh><br>
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</div>No. I don't only want text. I want additional functionality like auto-<br>
completion of web-forms, realtime updates, etc. Only because you do not want<br>
to have that, it does not mean that nobody else wants to have that.<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>Ralph, <br><br>You are missing the point on search here. We are not talking about interaction<br>with forms. That can stay (as long as it degrades gracefully).<br>
<br>Javascript is bad for search indexing, just the same way Flash is bad for search.<br><br>Flash is not indexable. When a restaurant has their web site's menus as text<br>and photos on Flash, the text never gets indexed simply because it is HTML.<br>
<br>The same goes for Javascript with things like jquery and the ten other frameworks.<br>They can display stuff dynamically based on some interaction with the site (mouse<br>over, click, ...etc.) That dynamic text will not get indexed properly in searches.<br>
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