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ComDriver
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 Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:38 pm Post subject: DHTML Out of Date? |
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| You don't see many people talking about DHTM anymore or is that just me? Is it still a useful skill to learn? |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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I don't use much DHTML anymore. I don't think fancy dropdown menus and moving layers makes your website better. Furthermore you can impact your search engine rankings negatively if you use DHTML and JavaScript for your website navigation.
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paul
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:39 am Post subject: |
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Peter is correct. Do not use JavaScript or DHTML for your website navigation, or if you do be very careful how you do it, if you want search engines to fully crawl your website.
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Steve
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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The term DHTML might not be used alot anymore, but javascript is still very popular.
I would disagree with the advice to never use javascript on your site.
It can often be the right way to provide useful website tools or dynamic forms for example. |
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paul
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Steve wrote: | The term DHTML might not be used alot anymore, but javascript is still very popular.
I would disagree with the advice to never use javascript on your site.
It can often be the right way to provide useful website tools or dynamic forms for example. |
I didn't say "do not use JavaScript", I said do not use JavaScript to create your website navigation (your links).
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rose
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| Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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I have some javascript on my navigation and I can't say it has caused any issues at all.
I use this for pop out/second level menu's and they still get crawled as normal.
I think it all depends how you code it  |
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Steve
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| Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| paul wrote: | | Steve wrote: | The term DHTML might not be used alot anymore, but javascript is still very popular.
I would disagree with the advice to never use javascript on your site.
It can often be the right way to provide useful website tools or dynamic forms for example. |
I didn't say "do not use JavaScript", I said do not use JavaScript to create your website navigation (your links).
Paul |
hmm fair enough.
I think the search engines are smart enough to get around that though (if thats the reason why you are saying not to use js for navigation?) |
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paul
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| Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I think the search engines are smart enough to get around that though (if thats the reason why you are saying not to use js for navigation?) |
No, they are not. If you use the following code to create a link the search engines can't follow it:
<script>
document.write("<a href='http://www.aspdev.org'>ASP dev</a>");
</script>
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Steve
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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my mistake then, I thought there was a way to parse the URL into straight HTML.
Then again I dont develop sites in accordance to search engine preferences. |
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