Oh ok. I don't know anything about 'smart tags' except that I've only heard of them in a negative light. Josh ___SIG___ On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 joel at luths.net wrote: > That's a different issue than Smart Tags, which is what the WSJ article is > about. I'm a bit surprised by this Smart Tags feature, at least from MS. Aren't > they the ones that have been saying OSS/GPL/whatever threatens intellectual > property, even though in that case the author/owner consciously chooses to go > that route? And now MS is going to intercept content (without the > author/owner's consent) and alter it before presenting it to the requestor. So > much for IP. Besides, I don't like the idea of them placing their ads > ("...Microsoft officials confirm that they will send users to Microsoft Web > properties or to other properties blessed by Microsoft") on my site unless > they're going to pay me. > > I also find this annoying: "...(MS) will provide a free bit of programming > code, called a 'meta tag', that site owners could use to bar any Smart Tags > from appearing on their sites." Tacit approval? Bull. How about they provide a > meta tag that _enables_ this feature. Then I'd have a lot less to gripe about. > > > Quoting Joshua Jore <moomonk at rogue.electricgod.net>: > > > I've gotta jump in here. There's a good reason why lots of neat web > > stuff > > works better in IE. It's always been a nicer browser to develop for than > > NS. Mozilla changes that somewhat by being a competitive W3C DOM > > implementation but IE has a lot of lead time. The IE vs !IE thing comes > > up > > regularly when our notes dev team tries to do much work from the web. > > Essentially, NS4 should just die right now. It's too buggy and wierd. > > IE4 > > is mostly OK, IE5 is really nifty and so it NS6. Obviously IE5's > > backwards > > compatiblity with the IE4 model is a definate plus over NS6. > > > > I guess I just think it's obvious why stuff is developed for IE. It > > either > > can't be done in NS4, it's too fugly or it requires too much server > > cooperation. NS6 is too new to be a real contender. > > > > Josh > > > > ___SIG___ > > > > On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Jack Ungerleider wrote: > > > > > It sounds an awful lot like 3rd Voice and other "annotation" engines > > that run > > > under IE. In this case the annotations are made by M$ and not a group > > of > > > "like minded" individuals. 3rd Voice was discussed on the Cluetrain > > Manifesto > > > site (I think or maybe on another site that talked about Cluetrain...) > > > > > > Its to be expected. M$ sees it self as a content provider now. Its > > just > > > coming up with more ways to deliver consumers to its content or its > > partners > > > content. > > > > > > Jack > > > _______________________________________________ > > > tclug-list mailing list > > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >