[WSG] MS Smart Tags

2007-04-19 Thread Elle Meredith

Hi,

It might sound silly but I first found out about MS Smart Tags  
yesterday. I found an article on ALA about them from 2001.

Just wanted to ask, does anyone know what happened with them since?
And would the meta tag: meta name=MSSmartTagsPreventParsing  
content=true / work? or is it still necessary?


Cheers,
Elle


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Re: [WSG] MS Smart Tags

2007-04-19 Thread Ben Buchanan

Hi Elle,


It might sound silly but I first found out about MS Smart Tags
yesterday. I found an article on ALA about them from 2001.
Just wanted to ask, does anyone know what happened with them since?
And would the meta tag: meta name=MSSmartTagsPreventParsing
content=true / work? or is it still necessary?


Even MS eventually had to accept it was a bad idea and they removed it
before releasing IE6. From
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/835564/en-gb The most contentious
part of IE6, Smart Tags, was removed just prior to its release.

As far as I know they didn't sneak it back in later, either; so the
tag shouldn't be necessary :)

cheers,
Ben

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