On 12/16/06, Angus McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The FAQ makes it clear that the concern is that invisible markup is associated with spam; because spammers like to hide stuff in their pages that causes a search engine to see them differently from human viewers, any proposed microformat that encourages people to put normally-visible markup into a page invisibly runs the risk of getting pages that carry it sanctioned by Google and friends once the spammers learn how to abuse it.
Without commenting on the rest, I'd just like to point out that the main reason for avoiding invisible meta data is because visible data is updated more often than invisible data. Spam is secondary to this principle. This is a usability phenomenon, not a spam prevention measure. Ben _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
