Re: Microsoft on Smart Tags

Read the following article at A List Apart for a comprehensive look at=20
Smart Tags and why they are a very bad thing for the Web:=20
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/smarttags/   The article gives opposing=20
point of views so it's not one sided.

HTH!

St=E9phane Bergeron

At 11:46 AM 25/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>I hadn't previously seen this page on the Internet Explorer web site, so=
 I'm
>posting the link here if anyone is interested:
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/preview/smarttags/default.asp
>
>This page describes the Smart Tags feature in IE6.  I was especially
>interested to read the following:
>
>"To enable Smart Tags on the Web pages you visit, you must first choose
>which Smart Tags you'd like to see. Internet Explorer does not come with=
 any
>Smart Tags installed. Smart Tag packages are available from Microsoft and
>dozens of other companies."
>
>Also, this page confirms that the meta tag to disable Smart Tags will be:
>
><meta name=3D"MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content=3D"TRUE">
>
>Apologies if you've all seen this before.  I thought it was interesting to
>read what Microsoft have to say about things.
>
>Tim

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