Re: Another Dumb Tags Issue

by =?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= Bergeron <stephberg(at)videotron.ca>

Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:14:42 -0400
To:	"tim booker" <timbooker(at)btinternet.com>
Cc:	hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
References:	flkinfo net tim videotron
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At 16:27 2001-06-15 +0100, you wrote:
> > The big picture that everyone here seems to be missing is
> > that a designer needs to add a lot of rather complex XML
> > like code to their pages to "turn on" SmartTags".
>
>That's not going to be the case, according to the following article in the
>Wall Street Journal:
>
>http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB991862595554629527.html
>
>It seems that IE6 running on Windows XP will parse every web page and add
>purple lines beneath certain words.

This is very scary indeed then if true.  Microsoft will certainly be sued=20
over this if Windows XP and IE 6 are released with this "feature".  Many=20
companies will not be pleased that MS deliberately deface their sites this=
=20
way.  This is 100 times worse than Alexa which at least required a plugin=20
to be downloaded...

St=E9phane

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