Re: Another Dumb Tags Issue

At 06:38 2001-06-15 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Tim,
>
>You're missing the big picture. I mentioned in my original post on this
>thread, here's the problem: Let's say I design a site for a travel
>agency that, naturally, contains all the major airports in the US. MS
>decides to put Smart Tags on all instances of major airport cities,
>linking them to MS-owned Expedia.com. How do you think my client will
>feel knowing their site will have links to a competitor?!

I've been reading about this on this list and the webdesign-l list with=20
much interest.  The big picture that everyone here seems to be missing is=20
that a designer needs to add a lot of rather complex XML like code to their=
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pages to "turn on" SmartTags".  Some of that code is used to define the=20
words on the page for which the designer wants the SmartTag button to=20
appear and what links should be added to the small window it opens for that=
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word.  It's not like all Web pages on every site on the Web will suddenly=20
arbitrarily display a bunch of SmartTag buttons in IE 6 that link to semi=20
related content, MS created or not.   Someone on the webdesign-l list I=20
believe sent a message explainning this in detail yesterday but the message=
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in question is on my home machine and I can't copy the text here at this=20
time.  It seemed to me from reading it that the choice to use SmartTags is=
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in the designer's hands so there's nothing to worry about.  Of course this=
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is from memory of something I read last night and the truth might be=20
different.  I haven't read the official Microsoft word on this so take the=
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above for what it's worth.

Cheers!

St=E9phane Bergeron

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