owika - 11:52 pm on Jul 23, 2007 (gmt 0)

It's not cloaking.

We've been using similar techniques since the late 90's, and we've never had any trouble with SE.

There is a few different ways of doing this, all of which has been around for years. They all originally stem from the way frameset pages had to be modded so that they could be indexed with deep/pretty urls. To accomplish that, the frameset was inserted via javascript, making it appear on-top of an ordinary non-framed version of the page that also was coded into the page, using the exact same data pulled from db of cource. Flash-developers adopted these techniques quickly, as it also solved the 100% layout problems we had with flash in the old days (1998/1999). Ever since XHTML/CSS became the norm (2002/2003), the flash-object has usually been placed within a replacable DIV instead.

Good thing more people are starting to take note of these solutions these days. Although it's kind of funny to see how things seem to be re-discovered in type ten-year intervals :)