Smart Tags ?

I have a sample of what smart tags can do to your (or at least my) design.
I have all links set as block elements which admittidly makes the effect
worse. I did this site for our local YMCA. They are on a network of 6
computers - all with the smart tags browser installed.
See the sample at www.effinghamymca.org/smarttags.html.
I have done several searches trying to find the number of these browsers in
use - no luck. I did find
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">
which disables smart tags.
BTW, I am dissapointed my lack of education - I have been in this group for
a long time and have not heard any discussion of this problem. We go to
great lengths to accomodate (NS4+ for example) all browsers - how did this
slip through the cracks? Especially when the solution is so simple?

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Still Having a Ball
Join the fight against Smart Tags
http://smarttags.manilasites.com/




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Terry Kimpling wrote:

I have a sample of what smart tags can do to your (or at least my) design.
I have all links set as block elements which admittidly makes the effect
worse. I did this site for our local YMCA. They are on a network of 6
computers - all with the smart tags browser installed.

That what browser? As far as I'm aware, smart tags appeared in a beta
version of Internet Explorer, received a great deal of bad press, and
weren't seen in the final release. The End.

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In article <40cc49ce_6 (AT) corp (DOT) newsgroups.com>, Terry Kimpling says...

I have a sample of what smart tags can do to your (or at least my) design.
I have all links set as block elements which admittidly makes the effect
worse. I did this site for our local YMCA. They are on a network of 6
computers - all with the smart tags browser installed.
See the sample at www.effinghamymca.org/smarttags.html.
I have done several searches trying to find the number of these browsers in
use - no luck. I did find
meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"
which disables smart tags.
BTW, I am dissapointed my lack of education - I have been in this group for
a long time and have not heard any discussion of this problem.

60ish posts in nearly three years, with massive gaps, according to
Google.

We go to
great lengths to accomodate (NS4+ for example) all browsers - how did this
slip through the cracks?

It didn't. For starters, this isn't the right group for the subject.
Secondly, this was discussed time & time in alt.html ages ago.

Especially when the solution is so simple?

That's not really a question, is it?

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Hywel I do not eat quiche
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Terry Kimpling wrote:

I have a sample of what smart tags can do to your (or at least my) design.

If you are worried about what an obscure feature in a hardly circulated
beta version of a broken browser can do to your design, then I don't
want to know what happens you learn what user stylesheets and
bookmarklets can do.

Talking about user stylesheets: If I had to to regularly visit your site
and I'd acually use user stylesheets, then the first thing I'd do, would
be getting rid of those butt-ugly background images and colours...

I have all links set as block elements which admittidly makes the effect
worse. I did this site for our local YMCA. They are on a network of 6
computers - all with the smart tags browser installed.

You are saying you've got six computers with internet access and three
year old (most likely *unpatched*) *beta* versions of IE6 installed on
them? Oh boy. It sounds as if those system are crawling with viruses und
ad ware.

I have done several searches trying to find the number of these browsers in
use - no luck.

That's because probably only a handfull of interested geeks installed
that beta version a while ago, and in the mean time every one in their
right mind will have either upgraded und patched it to the most resent
version or uninstalled it alltogether.

BTW, I am dissapointed my lack of education - I have been in this group for
a long time and have not heard any discussion of this problem.

Well, http://groups.google.de/groups?q=%22smart+tags%22 gives many hits
- most of them three years old und in other newsgroups since Smart Tags
are a browser feature that has nothing to do with HTML criticism.

We go to
great lengths to accomodate (NS4+ for example) all browsers - how did this
slip through the cracks?

From what I readin this group the majority acually seems to ignore NS4.
Plus my guess would be that there are more people who use NS4 than that
beta version of IE6.

Robin

"Terry Kimpling" <wejuggle2 (AT) effingham (DOT) net> wrote

BTW, I am dissapointed my lack of education - I have been in this group
for
a long time and have not heard any discussion of this problem.
[snipped]

Join the fight against Smart Tags

http://smarttags.manilasites.com/

Have you visited the "Fight Against Smart Tags" blog lately? The last post
there was over a year ago. Truly much ado about nothing at this point,
wouldn't you say?

Joni
http://www.jonimueller.com
http://www.webjones.org

"Robin Rattay" <rotora (AT) gmx (DOT) net> wrote

Terry Kimpling wrote:
I have a sample of what smart tags can do to your (or at least my)
design.

If you are worried about what an obscure feature in a hardly circulated
beta version of a broken browser can do to your design, then I don't
want to know what happens you learn what user stylesheets and
bookmarklets can do.

Talking about user stylesheets: If I had to to regularly visit your site
and I'd acually use user stylesheets, then the first thing I'd do, would
be getting rid of those butt-ugly background images and colours...
I try to code so that the user can change things to suit their our

situation. In this case doubly so - I did not design this site - I only
coded it. The actual design was done by the Y

I have all links set as block elements which admittidly makes the effect
worse. I did this site for our local YMCA. They are on a network of 6
computers - all with the smart tags browser installed.

You are saying you've got six computers with internet access and three
year old (most likely *unpatched*) *beta* versions of IE6 installed on
them? Oh boy. It sounds as if those system are crawling with viruses und
ad ware.
What I meant to say was "our local YMCA" has - sorry if I was unclear.

I have done several searches trying to find the number of these browsers
in
use - no luck.

That's because probably only a handfull of interested geeks installed
that beta version a while ago, and in the mean time every one in their
right mind will have either upgraded und patched it to the most resent
version or uninstalled it alltogether.
The Y has a comupter service which recently installed "new" software. That

is part of the reason I was so easily missled. Where they came up with this
is beyond me.
Thanks for your "most resent" input ;-)

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TK
www.wejuggle2.com
Still Having a Ball




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