[WEB4LIB] Re: another tangent to Re: Inline forms in CSS

[Charlie Irwin]

You are correct - I hadn't fully understood that part of the issue. The use
of <noindex> as an "in-page" tag certainly would be a
proprietary/non-standard use. And your point that all too many companies are
doing that is well taken. (I currently have 3 browsers in hopes that one of
them will work "properly" on any given page. Sigh....)

Charlie Irwin

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Dowling <tdowling at ohiolink.edu>
To: cirwin at world.std.com <cirwin at world.std.com>
Cc: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Date: Monday, March 04, 2002 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Re: another tangent to Re: Inline forms in CSS


>At 06:56 PM 3/3/2002, Charlie Irwin wrote:
>>       I had not really been following this thread BUT...
>>
>>       The <noindex> tag is used to prevent search engines' spiders and
'bots
>>from crawling a page. It is specified by the Robots Exclusion Protocol,
>>according to Chris Sherman's and Gary Price's book "The Invisible Web".
>>Therefore it can't really be classed as "proprietary/made up stuff" and is
>>certainly not something invented by Atomz.
>
>
>We may be talking at cross purposes.  The robot exclusion protocol at
><http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html> refers to a perfectly valid
>META element along these lines:
>
>   <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
>
>
>It does not refer to a NOINDEX *element* along the lines described by
Atomz:
>
>   <p>Index this paragraph.</p>
>   <noindex>
>   <p>Don't index this paragraph.</p>
>   </noindex>
>
>
>
>
>Thomas Dowling
>OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
>tdowling at ohiolink.edu