On 02/20/2012 11:55 PM, Robert Collins wrote: > tl;dr: lets: > * render searchable content on server side and client side using a > common template language > * render the forms needed to file a bug server side and optionally client > side > * render all other forms exclusively client side and have them > communicate exclusively via the API
I am cautiously +1 > Currently we render most content server side (even things returned via > the API are often rendered server side to HTML: aieeeeee); this often > has performance issues (and see the separate discussion about > templating engines for other considerations). But, nearly all our > users have solid javascript browsers - browsers that can easily > support tools like handlebars. Lp engineers and/or YUI do not appear to work well with IE 7, 8, 9. How do you propose IE works when JavaScript does not. I really do not have Windows on any of my computers. ... > Google won't index javascript-rendered content (at least, that is > their official position) - they recommend folk have a server side > rendered version of anything they need indexed. So we'd want to render > anything that should get indexed (e.g. /~flacoste, or > /ubuntu/+source/gcc etc) on the server still, but we can use a common > template, and a common initial-data-assembly routine (the lp cache in > the view) to only write that once. (Yes, this assumes being indexed by > big search engines matters... a separate and interesting debate, but > currently we assume it does, and though I may be prejudging such a > discussion, I think it still matters). Treat Google as a blind idiot-savant. Aiming to solve accessibility problems will address most, if not all indexing issues. We don't need to address 4.5:1 text:background contrast to help bots, but it will help a few users. I use http://achecker.ca/ to review pages that I believe are not properly indexed by google. -- Curtis Hovey http://launchpad.net/~sinzui
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