SEO is my first thought. Have you ever tried to write a web spider from scratch? The various ways that websites are built can make scraping meaningful data VERY

SEO is my first thought. Have you ever tried to write a web spider from scratch? The various ways that websites are built can make scraping meaningful data VERY difficult. I recall one particular site that didn't even store the price for an item in the same parent container, so there was nothing (from a markup standpoint) that linked the product and its price... you HAD to view it with JS enabled. I think down deep, the author is looking for the web to go back to the http://www.csszengarden.com http://www.csszengarden.com days. I really wish web designers would put forth the effort.