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Bill Gates's new website: The Gates Notes

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Re: Bill Gates's new website: The Gates Notes

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Why am I not surprised that it is using both WebForms and Silverlight... I see that big chunk of viewstate there Bill.

Well he does have a very large interest in the success of technologies still being a large shareholder. I prefer websites to use silverlight over flash, I think you like silverlight a lot more after using it, even if it is exactly very web friendly.

Re: Bill Gates's new website: The Gates Notes

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post #16

This is doing the rounds on the net too: http://www.thegatesnotes.com/robots.txt It doesn't mention Bing. Amusing, and useless.

Why is it useless (I've never worked with robots.txt)? Are the /css and /js files not large enough to bother skipping?

Useless in the sense it doesn't really need to mention Bing.

Blocking /css and /js makes sense because they don't add value in being crawled. Not necessary, but doesn't hurt.

Best practice: Always have a robots.txt file, even if it's empty.

Re: Bill Gates's new website: The Gates Notes

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post #16

This is doing the rounds on the net too: http://www.thegatesnotes.com/robots.txt It doesn't mention Bing. Amusing, and useless.

Why is it useless (I've never worked with robots.txt)? Are the /css and /js files not large enough to bother skipping?

Look at the comments...

# robots.txt # # This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts # of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo! # and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site, # you save bandwidth and server resources.

Re: Bill Gates's new website: The Gates Notes

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post #3

Why am I not surprised that it is using both WebForms and Silverlight... I see that big chunk of viewstate there Bill.

I'm viewing in Chrome 3.0 and haven't experienced any problems. I do not have silverlight installed at all.

Wouldn't that be ironic - If a large number of visitors were using Firefox, Safari & Chrome?

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