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> Are you going to make some static pages available for search engines?

For the moment there is a <noscript> tag with a description of the site tha=
t addresses that until the site is done. Not ideal but works for now.

There is a way currently in Gnoga to dump the site to plain html and attach=
 to elements for interactivity on connection that I could use to address th=
e crawler issues and I may end up using that method.

I am also considering adding a fallback mechanism using http and ajax for G=
noga, although it seems, so far, that there is little need. After a few twe=
aks it seems that most firewalls and proxies are working today with websock=
ets so the need may not be there.

In general the web has moved to more dynamic content and "comet" programmin=
g. So Google provides a way to allow you to present static content in an al=
ternate crawler only URL scheme. I likely will add a way to automate Gnoga =
to provide the HTML snapshots with the proper URL scheme. (https://develope=
rs.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/ and https://developers.google.com/w=
ebmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/specification)

For now though, I am mostly experimenting with possible "patterns" for writ=
ing websites with Gnoga.

Gnoga's design is "app" centric and more about GUIs than sites, so far a ve=
ry refreshing and enjoyable way of writing a web site, i.e. as an applicati=
on. Once I've got a good feel for it I'll add to Gnoga the needed parts to =
address the crawler issues in one form or another.

David Botton