On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Remigiusz Modrzejewski
<l...@maxnet.org.pl> wrote:
>
> On Feb 19, 2011, at 11:15 , Stephan Beal wrote:
>
>> i no longer believe that all bots are unaware of JS, though. In particular,
>> now that google has their own js engine, i suspect that their crawlers can
>> (or will soon be able to) understand js.
>
> They actually are fully js capable now. As fully AJAX sites became popular, it
> was necessary for them to accommodate. So now most serious crawlers can
> not only follow JS-obscured links, but also read fully JSON->Javascript
> rendered pages. I believe that all newer rouge bots can also handle js to some
> extent.

Out of curiosity, wouldn't bots be able to use the onClick JS on the
login page to automatically fill-in the captcha the same way people
do?
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