What do Yahoo editors use?

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What do Yahoo editors use?

I know NT 4.0, NN 4.x, what else?

alex_h

6:15 pm on May 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

Do they turn off cookies? I know that they check sites without Javascript, but does that mean that they browse without Javascript, or do they check both?

Will Yahoo editors get cookies? We are developing a feature into our engine that will work strangely without cookies on (it will work, the information will be fully available, but it would throw a Yahoo editor for a loop).

Javascript only worries me because of CSS, I use heavy CSS styles. The site will look quite bland without it.

Thanks,
Alex

Son_House

5:04 am on May 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

Within the last few weeks a Y! editor looked at our site with MSIE 6.0 running Windows NT 5.0 The site uses some very simple CSS but no Javascript or cookies. They only requested the page once so they did not check to see what would happen with JS and cookies on or off. Maybe they look at the source code first to see if it uses JS/cookies.

pageoneresults

5:17 am on May 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

> Javascript only worries me because of CSS, I use heavy CSS styles. The site will look quite bland without it.

Hello alex_h! JavaScript turned off will not affect your CSS. Any rollovers or other JavaScript functions just won't work. All regular links will function as normal so there shouldn't be anything to worry about.

Now, if they have CSS turned off, that's another story! Hopefully you've got your content <div>'s right behind the <body> tag and all else behind that.

Eric_Jarvis

1:53 pm on May 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

as I understand it Yahoo editors are concerned about the usability of the site with js, css disabled rather than the appearance

alex_h

4:47 pm on May 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

But do they look at it both ways? I'm really trying to get an understanding as to how Yahoo actually works.

Also, do I risk a blacklist if they don't like what I did or do I just resubmit. Losing $300 I can deal with, losing permenantly a Yahoo listing scares me.

chiyo

4:51 pm on May 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

Has the old accepted assumption that Y1 editors still use NN4 only to view a site now not applying?

pageoneresults

4:54 pm on May 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

> Has the old accepted assumption that Y1 editors still use NN4 only to view a site now not applying?

chiyo, I was going to ask a similar question. 12-18 months ago it may have been an issue. I don't think its an issue these days.

But, I still feel that the site should function in NN4.x. If not for Yahoo! editors, at least for those who are still using the beast!

Mikael

10:19 pm on May 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

I've just had two pages added to Yahoo (for free!) and the user agent for editor shows up in the log files as being Netscape 4. The actual user agent strings shown were:

1) Mozilla/4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)
2) Mozilla/4.05 [en] (Edit - I think this one might just be a robot masquerading as NN4, as it blanked the referrer field)