Does Spry in CS3 dreamweaver block Google

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Does Spry in CS3 dreamweaver block Google?

[tedster]

You're into the challenges of Ajax and search engines here. Because googlebot does not initiate any user-based action to get new information from the server at the same URL, Google will only index what the server sends back in response to the basic initial request for that URL.

So, for example, if you're using Spry simply to switch visiblity of various divs that all download immediately in the document, then this isn't full-blown Ajax and you should be fine with Google. It's really just a fancy version of "show/hide div" dHTML that's been discussed here often.

But if your Spry widgets require another call to the server to get more XML data without a page refresh, then that new content is not going to be seen by googlebot.