Re: Accessibility/SEO and IDs?

On 3/22/06, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you work in a team, there's the benefit of whoever does the CSS, or
> ties in backend code, etc, has a better chance of discerning one chunk
> of HTML from another and its purpose.
>
>  From a user's perspective, remember that every ID can be targeted as an
> anchor, i.e.: blah.html#list_of_shopping - that can be useful if for
> example, you want to link someone to a specific section of a long page
> they want to read. Personally, I'll occasionally View Selected Source in
> Firefox to get IDs like that and add them into a link I send to people
> on occasion. That's an extremely geeky use of the capability, but the
> point is, there are uses... probably some far less geeky than my own. So
> you may as well make them user-friendly.
>
> Lastly, you're going to run into overlap with short IDs... but if small
> HTML is of the utmost importance for some reason, the shorter IDs may be
> a better fit.
>
> -Chris
>
> Seb Frost wrote:
> > Is there any reason (other than to make your own work/maintenance easier) to
> > use semantic IDs on your webpages?
> >
> > In other words, does <div id="header"> benefit anyone other than the coder
> > over <div id="h">?
> >
> > I'm all for cutting down on any bytes that don't need to be sent to the
> > browser, and if working by myself I'd quickly get used to shorthands like
> > this, and they wouldn't proove to be a maintenance headache at all, for me.
> >
> > But is there a benefit to longer IDs?  Will search engines pick up on <ul
> > id="list_of_shopping"> or is <ul id="l"> just as good?
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Seb
> >
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microformats are on the rise, but I would stop short of saying it
makes a difference in Google serps.

The main concern should be readability. id="header" makes much more
sense than id="h".

since it's an id, it should only be on the page once....if your page
load time is effected by the id attribute, you've got bigger problems
:-)



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