XHTML, XForms, and device independence

XHTML, XForms, and device independence:

"Diversion: arachnophobia

'Google is, for all intents, a blind user. A billionaire blind user with tens of millions of friends, all of whom hang on his every word. I suspect Google will have a stronger impact than [laws] in building accessible websites.'

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'In a world where Google likely has a valuation several orders of magnitude higher than any chrome such as flash, graphics, audio, interactivity, or 'personalization', I see a heady revision.'

Karsten M. Self

Spider traps

• Sites with no content (e.g. Flash), no content</li><li>Java/Javascript dependencies.</li><li>Obviously CGI-driven sites (bots avoid these as they tend to be spider traps)</li><li>Session-ID'd URLs.</li><li>Audio content (not searchable)</li><li>Text-as-graphics. Google handles a number of formats, but it doesn't OCR.</li><li>Changeable sites. The longer you stay in one place, the better your Google score. Don't move content!</li></ul><br /><p><a href="http://not-a-real-namespace/http://www.cwi.nl/%7Esteven/">Steven Pemberton</a>, <a href="http://not-a-real-namespace/http://www.cwi.nl/">CWI</a>, <a href="http://not-a-real-namespace/http://www.cwi.nl/%7Esteven/amsterdam.html">Amsterdam</a> and <a href="http://not-a-real-namespace/http://www.w3.org/">W3C</a></p> <p>Chair, W3C <a href="http://not-a-real-namespace/http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/">HTML</a> and <a href="http://not-a-real-namespace/http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/">Forms</a> Working Groups</p> <noframes> content<br /> * Java/Javascript dependencies.<br /> * Obviously CGI-driven sites (bots avoid these as they tend to be spider traps)<br /> * Session-ID'd URLs.<br /> * Audio content (not searchable)<br /> * Text-as-graphics. Google handles a number of formats, but it doesn't OCR.<br /> * Changeable sites. The longer you stay in one place, the better your Google score. Don't move content!"