Re: [xml-dev] the challenges of 'extensible'

[Michael Sokolov <msokolov@safaribooksonline.com>]

Thanks for that, Simon

On 4/11/2014 9:16 AM, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> (Also, at this point I think most search engines are still treating 
> HTML as annotated text, though I hear rumors of DOM-building.)
I had heard they were doing at least some rendering in order to deal 
with the problem of invisible text spam (text rendered in white or tiny 
fonts or using some other trick to make it invisible to readers, and 
intended primarily to deceive the search engine). Maybe that doesn't 
require a DOM, but at the very least it requires knowing how to apply 
CSS to the elements, and when you let Javascript in the mix, you pretty 
well have to create a DOM to operate on.

-Mike