On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:40 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)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.)