Sent by Gary Bland on 4 December 2002 22:10
David Dorward wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:47:37PM -0500, Gary Bland wrote:
>
>>David Dorward wrote:
>>What are the problems with search engines? They index the page that
>>iframes are on. They are not like frames where the search engine only
>>indexes the frameset.
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> They also index the pages in the frames (and iframes) which can leave
> the user arriving from a search engine with orphan pages.
That is why search engines honor robot.txt, to stop things like that
from happening.
>
>
>>Many browser don't support or have very poor support for overflow: So
>>what makes overflow: a more workable option?
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> It degrades better.
>
How can getting part of the information degrade better then degrading to
a link that you can get all the information from?
>
>> one address for multiple pages
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>>>(which plays havoc with bookmarking),
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>>I have never had a problem with bookmarking a page that has an iframe on it.
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> Well I have had problems bookmarking pages using iframes where I have
> clicked a link, the content of the iframe changes, and then when I revisit
> the page the content is different to that which I bookmarked (and then
> I have to hunt around to find the link I'd clicked previously).
>
That is what they work best at,linking information without reload the page.
Gary
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