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Posted by Ed Mullen on 06/12/07 00:24
nice.guy.nige wrote:
> While the city slept, Ed Mullen (ed@edmullen.net) feverishly typed...
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> [server side includes]
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>> And if your ISP doesn't provide such technology, you can do it with
>> javascript. There are some people who don't allow javascript while
>> browsing so you'll need to decide if that matters to you.
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> The most important visitor your site could ever have does not have
> javascript enabled. This visitor's name is "googlebot". Think very carefully
> before you exclude content from this visitor ;-)
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> Cheers,
> Nige
>
Actually, Google has many Webmaster tools to account for this. And,
careful design can handle the rest.
I use javascript to create my menus on the fly. Still, every link on my
site of about 200 pages is listed in Google. At the top? That's
another question. ;-)
The bugaboo about javascript is just that, unfounded in practice. And,
given that many major ISPs don't provide server-side solutions, it may
be the only viable alternative.
Will a few paranoiacs be inconvenienced visiting my site? Maybe. I
don't care. It's a hobby for me. I'm not careless about my hobbies but
I'm not obsessed about them, either. And I DO provide a site map so
that the truly paranoid can find all the pages.
And I do ascribe to the Lincolnesque observation about pleasing all the
people all time: It cannot be done. So I have evaluated my own
situation and made my choices. And have done so knowing the trade-offs.
And, in five years I've never had anyone object to the use of
javascript on my site, but I have had many emails of thanks.
Hey, again, it's not ibm.com (which uses javascript) but I'm doing ok.
And so is IBM. And msn.com. And yahoo.com. And amazon.com etc. Geez,
people. Lighten up. javascript isn't evil.
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Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net
http://mozilla.edmullen.net
http://abington.edmullen.net
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