Google and JavaScript
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Hey there!
Recent announcements at Google to encourage webmasters to let Google crawl Java Script http://www.googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/05/understanding-web-pages-better.html
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/05/rendering-pages-with-fetch-as-google.html
We have always put JS and CSS behind robots.txt, but now considering taking them out of robots.
Any opinions on this?
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When Google puts out recommendations like this, they rarely lead people on a self-destructive path. If JS and CSS files could contain relevant information to help Google crawl or index your site more appropriately, then I say let them see those. Sorry I have no data to back up my position, but the articles you listed make a good case. I read a similar article weeks ago and unblocked JS and CSS from robots.txt, but I haven't really thought about this since.
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