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<TITLE>RE: [Javascript] How can search engines see a js include for navi gation?</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>AFAIK Even if the browser has JavaScript disabled the code still downloads.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Bob Filipiak</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>If the term "include" is being used as in </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2> <script type="text/javascript" src="mystuff.js"></script></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>rather than a server-scripting-based include --</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Why would a user agent that doesn't understand JavaScript follow a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>script source link to a file that has <noscript> tags in it? :-)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>If we're talking about an SSI, of course, that's different ...</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>H*</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Hassan Schroeder ----------------------------- hassan@webtuitive.com </FONT>
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