The argument about the least powerful solution made some sense but seemed somewhat flawed.
Yes, a table of data can be accessed from the web by another application but an Applet cannot. However the same is true for a flash application which is similar. I believe the same is more or less true about a HTML5 Canvas too. It is possible to look at the source code. A search engine however is highly unlikely to be able to look at JavaScript drawing on a canvas and guess what it does. Also even an image is not normally comprehensible by a search engine. It the case of an image the search engine has to rely on keywords and names etc supplied by the page author. Isn't similar metadata available for Applets or Flash (I am pretty sure that both have some form of alternative text). This puts all Canvas or Image based elements of a page on a fairly even footing. I have a feeling someone is going to demonstrate why I am altogether wrong though momentarily. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en.
