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Phil Payne  
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 More options Jun 11 2007, 10:52 am
From: Phil Payne
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:52:27 -0700
Local: Mon, Jun 11 2007 10:52 am
Subject: Re: Using CSS to hide text
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> As the Guidelines say, focus on intent. If you're using CSS techniques
> purely to improve your users' experience and/or accessibility, you
> shouldn't need to worry. One good way to keep it on the up-and-up (if
> you're replacing text w/ images) is to make sure the text you're
> hiding is being replaced by an image with the exact same text.

I'm planning on using CSS hiding systematically to allow me to create
sets of pages that can be viewed either on screens or on handhelds.
There's a lot of room on a screen for decorative stuff and other
things.

For example, on some pages I want the copyright statement at the top
on a screen and at the bottom on a handheld.  So I put both in the
XHTML.  An @media screen display:none for the class used in the bottom
statement and an @media handheld display:none for the class used in
the top statement is the most elegant way to go - one XHTML page and
one CSS serves both media.

I don't see that Google can progammatically verify what CSS does
anyway.  First it would double the crawling bandwidth needed, and
secondly it would be trivial to serve the Googlebot with an innocuous
CSS.


 
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