RE: CSS and Cloaking Search Engine question...

2004-03-31 Thread Dowdell, Jason G
First off, a search engine spider only reads the text on a fully rendered html page and it will not read external css files.So if you have your css in an external file it's not going to get read into the spider's memory.The spider will read the list of links below as if it were actually on the

RE: CSS and Cloaking Search Engine question...

2004-03-31 Thread Sandy Clark
Actually this is refered to as a skip navigation which is an accessibility issue. Section 508 1194.22 (o) A method shall be provided that permits users to skip repetitive navigation links. Most pages want to hide it from their sighted users which is why they use a display:none. However,

Re: CSS and Cloaking Search Engine question...

2004-03-31 Thread Les Mizzell
I would also suggest taking a look at this URI. http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ScreenreaderVisibility Hmm...which makes Designing CSS Web Pages by Christopher Schmitt slightly wrong, don't it? OhhIt's in Zeldman's book as well... -- Les Mizzell ---

Re: CSS and Cloaking Search Engine question...

2004-03-31 Thread Ray Champagne
You definitely get the award for most creative (yet geeky - in a cool way) signature block. Ray http://www.crystalvision.org At 10:50 AM 3/31/2004, Les Mizzell wrote: I would also suggest taking a look at this URI. http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ScreenreaderVisibility Hmm...which