That's the point of my query/question, Why can't the Google bot understand Javascript ? As I said originally, using Firebug I can see what the Javascript has rendered to the DOM, so there's no good reason the Google bot can;t do the same. Granted, it cannot follow links or any of the possibly unlimited execution paths in the Javascript, but it should be able to render the initial state of the page, and consequently index stuff on that page. Likewise if there is a site map with history tags, it should be able to render the initial state of each of those pages and index accordingly. The initial state is really all you want indexed anyway - if I do a Google search for "fubar", I reasonably expect the URLs returned to point to a page with "fubar" on it somewhere i.e. for a GWT app the initial state of that page.
It just seems a bit strange that one part of Google has created a tool for making really usable web sites, but the search side of Google says "don''t use Javascript" if you want to be indexed. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
