Date   : Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:26:36 +0100
From   : info@... (Sprow)
Subject: ITV Teletext to shut down in January

In article <2f806cd70907180204t4e07888cpe72ce0017c1058be@...>,
   Rob <robert@...> wrote:
> On 18/07/2009, Sprow <info@...> wrote:
> >> I had thought of
> >> <img src="redR.gif"><img src="redE.gif"><img src="redD.gif"><img
> >> src="space.gif">....
> >
> > why not just send the page as a bitmap (PNG compresses this to ~3k)
> >
> > Then, the HTML only needs to be concerned with an imagemap to do the page
> > links and perhaps something to do the live ticker along the top,
>
> This is how http://ceefax.tv/ does it.

Except that they've not tried to get the font ven vaguely right. Plus all
the images are GIFs, which would have been OK if they'd have then used
animated GIFs to do the sub pages.

> If it's all images, then it's not visible to
> the search engines.  A little how textfiles.com do their front page,
> but for a viewdata font rather than a generic fixed-pitch one.

But you could just put the textual content in the <META name="description">
tag and it'll then get catalogued correctly by search engines,
Sprow.