04-24-2007, 05:01 AM
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Originally Posted by WebGeek182
The CNN stock quote example isn't the best example because the stock quotes have no relevance to SEO for that page, so by all means use AJAX. |
- Sometimes a thread can go off topic. That may be good or bad.
- An AJAX driven website has to take SEO into account. Read through this thread once more if you do not understand that.
- Yes, JS turned off may be a problem. It is estimated that around 10 % of web surfers have JS turned off. (Another group use very old browsers or text only browsers). A well formed AJAX site shall degrade gracefully if the surfers browser has no support for AJAX. That is why external AJAX libraries are important. You can divide this group into two. The advanced surfers that do not like JS and popups. AJAX was launced in 2005 as a technology to bridge the gap between web applications and desktop applications, by getting rid of the need for page reload. These surfers will soon pick up the AJAX technology and turn JS on. Whether web applications are driven by AJAX or another technology is not important. The important aspect is the asynchronous communication between the client and the server. With technologies like AJAX, there has to be a connection between browser, (DOM) and server scripting.
The other less technical group will not know the effect of turning off JS. Future browsers may / shall have a warning when you turn off JS, that you may get problems with important web pages by turning JS off.
So there is a great probability that this 10 % group will decrease absolutely and relatively.
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