Re: [SLUG] (FWD) links to articles

From: Smitty (76543a@mpinet.net)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 21:52:44 EDT


We had a discussion on 'smart tags" last week. I originally posted on it.
Smitty

On Thursday 28 June 2001 19:29, you wrote:
> Here's a news item. I don't recall whether we've had this discussion on
> this list, but Microsoft intended to put "smart tags" in IE 6, so that
> certain words or phrases would have these attached to them. Clicking on
> them would bring up a drop down menu of related links. It would not be
> something built into the HTML, but part of IE's internal plumbing. The
> problem, of course, is that if you had a smart link attached to, say,
> the word "Linux" on a site, Microsoft could provide a set of links to
> anti-Linux sites. Using your imagination, I'm sure you can figure out
> what other kinds of interesting things they could do with this. And
> since IE has now virtually taken over the browser market on Windows,
> everyone running the new version would be a captive audience.
>
> My wife stirred up some s**t recently on the HTML Writers Guild list by
> bringing this up. The list went ballistic for a while, as web people
> used _their_ imaginations.
>
> In any case, it appears Microsoft thought better of the idea, and has
> now backed down. (They'll bring it up again, don't worry.) Below is the
> original link my wife sent me. The story is also echoed on today's
> Slashdot.
>
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/593601.asp#BODY
>
>
> Paul



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