David Huynh wrote: > Search engines are only interested in crawling (probably) visible HTML > content, so anything to be crawled must be in HTML, and that spoils the > whole point of separating data from presentation.
I think you have this a little skewed ;-) Just because your data is stored as HTML doesn't mean it's not separated from presentation... that's why CSS was born! I think the answer is you should encode your data as semantic HTML markup or POSH[1] as it's known. This has a lot of advantages; Google can 'see' your data, Browsers without Javascript enabled can see your data AND exhibit then becomes a method for progressively enhancing the display of the data. This technique fits well with the current idea of 'progressive enhancement' expounded by people like Jeremy Keith [2]. Currently if you don't have Javascript enabled then an Exhibit page is useless. Of course you also have to ask yourself... do you care if Google indexes your data. If not then you can continue as before. Regards, David Legg [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/posh [2] http://domscripting.com/author/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" 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/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
