Joel Spolsky mentioned “surfacing” on the SO podcast.
What does it mean? Is it something like “exposing,” as in “exposing an interface”?
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Joel Spolsky mentioned “surfacing” on the SO podcast.
What does it mean? Is it something like “exposing,” as in “exposing an interface”?
Here’s a quote from the transcript wiki of podcast 51 where they mention “surfacing.” I think they’ve mentioned it a couple of other times too.
I think it’s basically making sure some content is visible to search engines rather than being loaded by ajax or something. Or making them visible by default.