The best thing about tags as far as resiliency goes is name-spacing and context.
Whereas metatags where never available to the end user and could be easily spammed, tags used in websites, especially blogs and sites like Flickr, have a use that extends beyond spiders -- that is, navigational purposes. Consider this on my blog: http://factoryjoe.com/blog/archives/ If I had spammed my tags, that device would be useless to my audience. At the same time, maybe I spammed my metatags, but you'd never know it. In that respect I think that tags, from a publisher perspective, will be more resilient because you're incented to keep them tidy for your audience. And, w/r/t CSS-hidden tags and so on... I believe that most engines have become smart enough to penalize sites that engage in such practices generally -- adding tags would therefore be no better than your typical word spam, since that content would likely be ignored anyway. Chris On 3/28/06, Michael Stillwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/27/06, Chris Messina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Funny, I was actually discussing this with Tantek and David weekly > > about how Microformats + Behavior + Wikis are the next frontier... > > Will robots parse Javascript-generated microformats? I was thinking > of writing some Javascript to generate rel-tag from the <meta > name="keywords"> elements that have been embedded in my pages all > these years, but decided that there's not much point since only humans > will see it. > > I thought briefly about doing it server-side in PHP, but I eventually > gave up on the idea because: (a) doing it in PHP was going to be more > of a hassle and; (b) I don't see how rel-tag is going to endure any > more than meta keywords ever did. > > What's the thinking on rel-tag survivability versus meta keywords? > The wiki page says that in being visible, rel-tag will be "somewhat > more resilient" than meta keywords. This is probably true, but it's > not particularly reassuring. (Have there been any sightings of tags > being hidden via CSS/Javascript?) I not having much luck finding > anything about this in the mailing lists either, though I imagine this > must have been discussed at some point--any pointers? > > > > > Cheers, > Michael > > -- > http://beebo.org > +44 78 2118 9049 > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
