[thelist] More Smart Tags

Robert Goodyear rob_goodyear at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 26 13:00:36 CDT 2001


Ignore my last post... I just stated the obvious but not in the right context. I thought
you meant hover... not highlight.

(sheepishly)

/rg

--- Joshua OIson <joshua at alphashop.net> wrote:
> I just noticed something on MSDN that I never noticed before.  When I
> highlight a word on the page, a glossary definition opens up.  I'm using ie
> 5.0.  I think this is pretty neat, even if it IS a precursor to smart tags.
> 
> example:
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/server/help/default.asp
> 
> Since it looks like they might be keeping this entirely within context of
> the site, I'm all for it.  If there was an easy interface for developers to
> make the same functionality on their own sites, using their own
> dictionaries, without complex JS, that would be wonderful.
> 
> -joshua
> 
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