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Gordon Brown letter: Sun misjudges readers' mood 5

November 11, 2009
Is the Sun censoring pro-Brown comments?

The Sun is running a pretty despicable campaign against Gordon Brown – and the majority of its readers don’t agree with the paper’s stance if its website comments are anything to go by.

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Guardian makes its comments accessible, SEO friendly and mobile friendly all in one go! 7

November 05, 2009
What you used to see with JS turned off

The Guardian has changed its comment system – moving from a client-side system to a server-side one.

With the old system, once you loaded a page, some javascript would go off and look up the comments and display them. This wasn’t terribly accessible – if you couldn’t or didn’t run javascript, you couldn’t see the comments. It was also bad for SEO, as search engines couldn’t run the javascript. And if your mobile didn’t run javascript (like mine), you couldn’t read the comments either.

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