>I am building (having built) a data-base driven site and I am desperate to >know why certain web applications can't see or use key-words loaded in >PhotoShop. EXIF info is still there, as well as file info, but not keywords. > >My questions and others before me are asking about photographs, NOT web >'design' per se. I would agree that "do buttons look better than tick boxes" >is not appropriate but keywords, file info, and file preparation is surely >ESSENTIAL to all of us?
Glyn: Actually since the launch of Photoshop 7 this has been on the minds of the engineers at Adobe. At the Photoplus Expo in New York City this past October, Marc Pawlinger mentioned that they [adobe] have had several discussions with Google about making images encoded with XMP metadata "readable" by the search engines. However, at this point in time, this is not possible, any more than it is possible to have a search engine "spider" and catalog a site built with "Flash." I do think that this will happen, but my crystal ball is a bit hazy on how soon that will be. David -- David Riecks (that's "i" before "e", but the "e" is silent) http://www.riecks.com , Chicago Midwest ASMP member http://zillionbucks.com "The Webhost for your Creative Business" =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
