[thelist] Questinging JS was "AJAX Calls Working Intermittently in IE"
Christian Heilmann
codepo8 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 13 05:41:30 CDT 2008
>> I strongly encourage non-JS solutions for things like navigation so that
>> search engine ranking isn't hindered, but for things like paging through
>> an
>> uber-slick photo gallery, I say let the JS enabled browsers have all the
>> fun.
>>
Yes, but if you back up the gallery with a backend solution that either
renders a full page view or an HTML snippet (depending on the http
request header) than you can also monitor *what* people are watching and
see what is successful - and these are metrics than *any* business owner
I know wants to have (they never do anything with that data, but that is
another story). You also allow for search engines to crawl all the photo
pages with captions and find otherwise hidden keywords that way.
That said, if you *create* your super slick JS slideshow with JS and the
DOM, no problem. If you offer links and buttons that do nothing when JS
is off then you haven't grasped the trust contract between you and the
end user.
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