RE: Another Dumb Tags Issue

by "tim booker" <timbooker(at)btinternet.com>

 Date:  Thu, 14 Jun 2001 19:02:25 +0100
 To:  <bryan.westbrook(at)amd.com>
 Cc:  "HWG \(E-mail\)" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
 In-Reply-To:  amd
  todo: View Thread, Original
You could write a script on the server (Perl, PHP, whatever) to modify your
documents!

Tim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]On Behalf Of
> bryan.westbrook(at)amd.com
> Sent: 14 June 2001 16:36
> To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> Subject: RE: Another Dumb Tags Issue
>
>
> You'll still have to go through all the trouble of reloading
> your pages
> unless you're editing live on the server.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tim booker [mailto:timbooker(at)btinternet.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 9:50 AM
> To: Westbrook, Bryan; hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> Subject: Re: Another Dumb Tags Issue
>
>
> Or, you could just do a global search and replace for
> </head>, and replace
> it with <meta name="whatever" content="whatever"></head>.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <bryan.westbrook(at)amd.com>
> To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 2:46 PM
> Subject: Another Dumb Tags Issue
>
>
> > I just realized another problem with MS's Dumb Tags.
> Suppose you have a
> lot
> > of static pages that you never planned to update, but now
> you have to go
> and
> > add the mythical Dumb Tag killer meta tags.  Of course the
> wasted time and
> > effort it's going to take everybody to add the tags to all
> of their pages
> > anyway is going to be a major wasted resource.
> >
> > All MS had to do to avoid this PR nightmare is to have
> established a meta
> > tag to turn the #$%&!@ things on instead of off.
> >
>
>

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