[thelist] More Smart Tags

[Martin]

aardvark wrote on 25/6/01 2:48 pm

>> OK, so we're obliged to add a proprietary meta tag for every browser
>> that decides they want to mess with our content?
>
>well, yes, and that is unfortunate... but hey, aren't a lot of us 
>adding favicon.ico files to our sites?  and how is it messing with our 
>content?  the content doesn't change, it just stuff some unfortunate 
>links into an ugly squiggly line..

Links are content (otherwise Yahoo doesn't exist, and bloggers don't
really have much of a site), and choice of links or lack thereof is very
clearly part of the site owner's intent.

Imagine if I *removed* all the links from your site?

>
>> 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.
>
>i completely disagree with that... how is that abuse of monopoly?  
>have you seen all the other browsers out there that users can get?  
>free ones?  that easily do what IE can do?
>
>there is a choice, user education not-withstanding...

Ah yes. Unfortunately, that's so much handwaving. "Apart
from the insurmountable problems, timetravel is trivial"

Cheers
Martin

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