Their target audience is the site visitor, not the designer or owner. They think visitors will prefer taggable sites to non-taggable. It's all about innovation (in a self-serving way.) We all want the web to grow and improve. Most businesses aren't altruistic enough to try to benefit the web without any thought for their own business model. Previous efforts in this direction died on their own. spinhead -----Original Message----- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:jedimaster at macromedia.com] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 9:28 AM To: thelist at lists.evolt.org Subject: RE: [thelist] Smart Tag Not I would love to know why I have to 'opt out' on my web site. Shouldn't MS be making it so that people have to opt in? I guess that would be crazy. ======================================================================= Raymond Camden, Principal Spectra Compliance Engineer for Macromedia Email : jedimaster at macromedia.com ICQ UIN : 3679482 "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > -----Original Message----- > From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org > [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of the head lemur > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 12:12 PM > To: !Evolt > Subject: [thelist] Smart Tag Not > > > Killing smart tags..... > > The tag is this: > > <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"> > > And the source for this is the MS IE6 newsgroup: > http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=eDkIfn78AHA.1884%40tkmsftngp05 > > Hat Tip: Bill Mason > http://www.data1701d.com > > > the head lemur > Web Standards > http://www.webstandards.org > Evolt.org > http://www.evolt.org > Lemurzone > http://www.lemurzone.com > >