- From: Lachlan Cannon <luminosity@members.evolt.org>
- Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 00:29:44 +1000
- To: www-html@w3.org
Steven Pemberton wrote: > "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>: > >>I agree with this... I don't see how XFrames particularly help with >>search engines really. It does make it easier for them to return >>results to framesets, but that seems to be all. > > > "That's all"? That's already quite a lot. Search engines cannot currently > return pages in the context that they are designed in. So you get a page > with a lot of context missing. XFrames allows them to return the page in the > context you would normally see it in. > > It doesn't help search engines *find* results, it helps them *return* them. Yes, but how does the search engine determine the *best* frame set to return? In some cases the single page by itself might be better, and there might be different framesets referencing the page you want. Also, this brings up a possible problem of search engine spamming -- instead of getting theone relevant result that is that page, suddenly I might get ten different framesets which reference that page, thus making it even harder to find what I actually want. IMO, frames should be dropped fully. -- Lach __________________________________________ Web: http://illuminosity.net/ E-mail: lach @ illuminosity.net MSN: luminosity @ members.evolt.org __________________________________________
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