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Cloaking vs Image Replacement: Hiding Text is Not a Bad Thing
7/16/2007 Image replacement can be a contentious issue when it comes to optimizing your websites for a search engine, but is widely supported by leading-edge web standards developers attempting to create more visually appealing websites for their users whilst still retaining semantic, accessible code.