Add support for clients with javascript disabled / search bots

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component_MailArchive: User Interface resolution_fixed type_defect | by rcross@amsl.com

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The infinite scroll feature, along with message pane, etc. should degrade gracefully if javascript is not available. This affects users who elect to disable javascript as well as search crawlers.

See thread tools-discuss thread: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tools-discuss/v0vHAUS72APWtPnRc4WthStBbCg

Reference: http://www.clickseed.com/seo/seo-friendly-infinite-scroll

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Issue migrated from trac:1777 at 2021-09-22 16:46:31 +0500

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@hassanakbar4 changed title from Add support for clients with javascript disabled to Add support for clients with javascript disabled / search bots

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@hassanakbar4 commented

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Looking at the new design with javascript and frames, it seems likely that web spiders can't find the links to the messages. There's various ways to fix that but the easiest is probably to recognize the user agent strings of the handful of spiders that matter (Google, Bing, Alexa for archive.org, maybe a few others) and serve them a simplifed unframed version of the site with links to the article pages.

• John Levine

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@hassanakbar4 changed status from new to closed

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@hassanakbar4 changed resolution from ` tofixed`

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@hassanakbar4 commented

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Resolved in 1.6.0