On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:40 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Weren't *all* bots told a while ago to use the API or risk random arbitrary breakage? (Or am I thinking of something else?)
All bots have always been told that, but we're not serious enough about enforcing it to actually make all bots grind to a halt. I've made some tweaks that should allow another HTML5 deployment attempt, though, probably not breaking too many bots. (Non-browser-based bots should just be using an HTML5 parser instead of an XML parser to avoid this pain, but browser scripts don't necessarily have that option.)