I would like to say that I feel strongly that jd has been poorly treated and
wrongly insulted a number of times in this thread.

I'd also like to suggest that allowing link spidering to dictate the future
of content indexing may be shortsighted. It's convienient, but it gets worse
every year as a way of finding information. Ten years ago Alta Vista was the
stuff, today it's Google, but the nature of search engines is such that any
year Google could find itself replaced by something else, rss being a
perfect example for a specific kind of info.

Also, as a side note, as advertisers and marketers optimize the hell out of
their information, it gets harder to find real information on Google (and
not have the first 5 pages of a simple query return only links to products).
The natural progression is that that will continue until something else
takes over the role.

I realize that in many cases it makes sense to go with the flow for either
marketing or technical reasons and that google is a useful tool, but it's
far from the endgame on indexing information.

I do agree that it would be in Adobe's interest to make publishing well
tagged information easier with built in components, tools, examples and
specs, but it's really going to be hard for them to do something like that
by themselves. They are probably better off  waiting for developers to
articulate the problems and  brainstorm solutions until it's clear what
they could do to help.

Just my thoughts, not to be taken to seriously, but my real purpose of
commenting here is that I don't think jd was well treated and I wanted to
mention that.

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