Re: OT -- Microsoft's Smart Tags

2001-08-17 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:22:55AM +0300, P Kirk wrote: Right now I'm at work using ie6 and in the Advanced Options there are a lot of Smart Tags radio boxes. Smart Tags is here. Anytime Microsoft or anyone else wants to turn it on, they just need to fire up a VB script. great. i knew it

Re: OT -- Microsoft's Smart Tags

2001-08-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 11:33:45PM -0500, will trillich wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:22:55AM +0300, P Kirk wrote: Smart Tags is here. Anytime Microsoft or anyone else wants to turn it on, they just need to fire up a VB script. great. i knew it -- listening to a microsoft marketing

Re: OT -- Microsoft's Smart Tags

2001-08-16 Thread P Kirk
Right now I'm at work using ie6 and in the Advanced Options there are a lot of Smart Tags radio boxes. Smart Tags is here. Anytime Microsoft or anyone else wants to turn it on, they just need to fire up a VB script.

Re: OT -- Microsoft's Smart Tags

2001-08-15 Thread Paul Scott
will trillich wrote: short version: webmasters, take note and add meta name=MSSmartTagsPreventParsing content=TRUE to every page you own... lnog version: more darkness from redmond -- this, from an 'addme.com' newsletter i subscribe to (i'm not affiliated in any way; in fact i seldom find

Re: OT -- Microsoft's Smart Tags

2001-08-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 02:06:46AM -0500, will trillich wrote: short version: webmasters, take note and add meta name=MSSmartTagsPreventParsing content=TRUE to every page you own... No. Because... [snip] As soon as Smart Tags appeared in a beta release of Windows XP, the furor began.

RE: OT -- Microsoft's Smart Tags

2001-08-15 Thread Ted Harding
Well written, Will! On 15-Aug-01 will trillich wrote: Real Life Internet Evil: Microsoft's Smart Tags Content (the tags) are added dynamically to web pages by the browser without the permission of the person who created the pages (the

Re: OT -- Microsoft's Smart Tags

2001-08-15 Thread John Galt
Old news, it's been pulled. It almost got me to dust off the html-of-ie-death, though... There in the mid 90s, there were sites that could crash internet exploiter, and I doubt that the actual flaws got fixed, just the particular iterations that were popularized... On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, will

Re: OT -- Microsoft's Smart Tags

2001-08-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:07:59AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: Suppose you create a web page, and you make a word or phrase highlighted because it's a tag for one of your own URLs (i.e. _you_ want the reader to be able to follow a link at that point). And suppose the word or phrase is one of

RE: OT -- Microsoft's Smart Tags

2001-08-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Subject: RE: OT -- Microsoft's Smart Tags Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:07:59 +0100 (BST) From: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suppose you create a web page, and you make a word or phrase highlighted because it's a tag for one of your own URLs (i.e. _you_ want the reader to be able to follow