[thelist] More Smart Tags

[Erik Mattheis]

Isaac - your post reads pro-Smart Tag where your evolt article takes 
the other side - what gives, are you playing devil's advocate, taking 
the middle road, mistaken identity?

Nobody here knows what the final implementation of smart tags will 
be, IMO they won't be a problem, and if they do end up linking to MS 
preferred sites, it will be the lynch pin for MS ... but why any 
website developer would be into the idea as the IE 6 beta purportedly 
implements them is beyond me:

The point here is that there's _nothing_ that Smart Tags can do that 
a 4.0 browser cannot already do - except draw a purple wiggly line 
under text and make it easy for a third party direct the flow of 
traffic from a website they don't own.

At 11:57 AM +0930 6/25/01, isaac wrote:
>  > I build web sites for a living, the idea of trying to sell a site to a
>>  commercial customer that can be grafitti'd by an anonymous competitor is
>>  outrageous.
>
>Add the meta tag to stop smart tags effecting your content.

OK, so we're obliged to add a proprietary meta tag for every browser 
that decides they want to mess with our content?

It seems to me (as well as others more versed in law than anyone on 
this list is likely to be) that this smart tag idea (as we understand 
it) is a blatant abuse of monopoly power.

If this were some off-browser with a fraction of a percent of the 
market share the situation would be laughable - another silly dot-com 
idea ... but we're talking about what will be THE browser for the 
vast majority of we users who update their OS after October.


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- Erik Mattheis

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