martinibuster - 6:17 pm on Dec 7, 2002 (gmt 0)

Ay-yai-Yai...

Perhaps we should define what is meant by "seen." To me, "seen" means "being indexed". Googlebot will not index/see JavaScript if your code is written correctly. However, it does need to crawl through the code to get to your content.

The "this issue" I was referring to in an earlier post was the coding problem. In the cited case, the JS was coded incorrectly. Therefore, it was getting parsed as html, and "seen/indexed" by the bot. I ran his code through the w3c html validator and received weird results which confirmed that the JS was coded incorrectly.

Always a good idea to run your code through the Validator to see what's getting parsed.

The larger issue for me, is this: If googlebot is programmed to crawl through the first 100k of code and ignore the rest, and you have a 60k JS Drop Down Menu with DHTML sliders, and another 40k of JS rollovers and stuff, how much of your content is going to get indexed? Nothing.

Though the JS doesn't get "indexed/seen" (when all is correctly coded), it does get crawled. It presents a barrier between the bot and the keyword rich content.