It was once possible access Google's archive of Usenet without Javascript. And there were "heavy" and "light" versions of the messages. The heavy versions have an enormous amount of Javascript, CSS and HTML cruft.
However, later they switched to HTTPS and #! URLs. Around this time I remember getting $CLASSPATH errors. Perhaps this is evidence to support your incompetence argument?
The "content" here is nothing but some plain ASCII Usenet posts. How difficult is it to serve plain text?
Anyway, today the same URL has been converted to this:
As I said in an earlier thread, Google itself developed a proposal to deal with this #! URL problem and advises webmasters to revise these AJAX URL's to "escaped_fragment" style URL's:
But apparently when the webmaster is Google, the specification does not apply.
Years ago, I made my own archives of some important comp and net groups. Google is not reliable. This stuff should be placed with the Internet Archive.
For example, http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.wizards/msg/24222e5...
However, later they switched to HTTPS and #! URLs. Around this time I remember getting $CLASSPATH errors. Perhaps this is evidence to support your incompetence argument?
The "content" here is nothing but some plain ASCII Usenet posts. How difficult is it to serve plain text?
Anyway, today the same URL has been converted to this:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.unix.wizards/bllj...
As I said in an earlier thread, Google itself developed a proposal to deal with this #! URL problem and advises webmasters to revise these AJAX URL's to "escaped_fragment" style URL's:
http://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/s...
But apparently when the webmaster is Google, the specification does not apply.
Years ago, I made my own archives of some important comp and net groups. Google is not reliable. This stuff should be placed with the Internet Archive.