[llvm-commits] CVS: llvm-www/pubs/index.html pubs.js

[Chris Lattner]

On Dec 26, 2008, at 8:12 AM, Nuno Lopes wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> Changes in directory llvm-www/pubs:
>>
>> index.html updated: 1.89 -> 1.90
>> pubs.js updated: 1.2 -> 1.3
>> ---
>> Log message:
>>
>> Converted all papers from hand-coded HTML to BibTeX-like Javascript.
>
>
> I don't really agree with this change. This will rule-out non-js aware
> browsers plus some search engines' crawlers.
> If such abstraction is desired, I think it could be done at server- 
> side with
> PHP (although I'm slightly biased :)

Hi Nuno,

Maintaining the papers list is a major pain (for me, since I am the  
only person who seems to add papers).  All the individual papers'  
pages are still plain HTML.

Besides that, I wouldn't be surprised if major search engines had some  
way to handle this sort of JS.

-Chris