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[david l goodrich]

Dave Crouse wrote:
> From many websites:
> 
> "
> If you don't want Microsoft products to automatically generate smart tags
> on your web pages, then simply include this tag. It must be included on
> each page of your site for which you do not desire this feature. "
> 
> 
> Real Life Internet Evil: Microsoft's Smart Tags
> http://www.addme.com/issue216.htm
> 
> "As soon as Smart Tags appeared in a beta release of Windows XP, the furor
> began. It was awesome to see. Microsoft was hit from all sides by just
> about everyone, because their intentions were so transparent and so
> blatantly monopolistic that even the most conservative could see what they
> were up to. The dangers caused a flood of protests to be received by the
> giant company, so many that Microsoft was forced to remove the feature
> from their products.
> 
> "As a result of smart tags in beta versions of Windows XP and IE, we
> received lots of feedback, and have realized that there is a need to
> better balance the user experience with the legitimate concerns of content
> providers and web sites," Microsoft said in a statement on June 28th,
> 2001.
> 
> Keep an eye on Microsoft, however, because they also added, "Microsoft
> remains committed to this type of technology, and will work closely with
> content providers and partners in the industry in the coming months to
> further refine how it can be used."
> 
> -------------
> 
> So, "supposedly", M$ has abandoned this line of invasion into your work
> for now, but I'll keep my tags in place just the same. Besides, it's kind
> of like thumbing your nose at M$ ;)
> 
> Basically it was M$'s attempt to control more of the end users browsing
> because they have a monopoly on the browser market (for all intensive
> purposes anyway). They finally relented under pressure, and thats where

no, no, NO!  a thousand times no!  intents and purposes!

*deep breath* sorry, i feel better now.
   --waldo

> the
> 
> <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true" />
> 
> tags came into play. Webmasters the world over started adding these tags
> to their webpages to keep M$ from hijacking their visitors away from their
> websites with the so called "smart tags".
> 
> Just one more reason to hate the monopolistic company imho.
> 
> 
> Crouse
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, January 14, 2005 8:26 pm, Morris Dovey said:
> 
>>Dave Crouse wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>That said, I use my meta-tags help for the "other" search engines, plus
>>>I
>>>just plain like adding the no-parse tag for M$.  :)  Probably isnt' even
>>> needed, but I put it on every page :)
>>
>>><meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true" />
>>>
>>Hmmm. Interesting! Tell me about the no-parse tag, please...
>>
>>
>>--
>>Morris Dovey
>>West Des Moines, Iowa USA
>>
>>
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