tedster - 6:54 am on Nov 4, 2000 (gmt 0)

I've been thinking a lot about spiders and css as I use it more and more. With all the options and variety available through CSS, it seems to me that the SEs would have a heck of a time programming to automatically discern abuses from legitimiate uses.

I wouldn't want the job of trying to create that strategy. Even in a simple case, like same colored text -- which tag are you going to look for? How would you be sure, on an automated basis, that the declared color was really displaying against a same color background, amidst all the possibilities with absolute and relative positioning.

And what about the way Netscape CSS inheritance spazzes out all the time? How could a spider ever account for all that craziness?