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Subject:RE: HTML docs From:Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- jci -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 21 Jun 2001 08:16:17 -0500
>I can't quickly find it right now, but I understand that there is a way to
>disable smart tags in the HTML. So if you are concerned with it, you can
add
>code to your HTML that prevents Smart Tags from working.
That's a big yes/no, there, friend. Yes, there's a meta tag which, if
inserted on every one of your hundreds (or thousands) of pages is supposed
to disable the tags. But no, you can't count on it working, because as of
now at least, there's a user preference for IE6 that says, "I don't care
what the page says, show me the tags anyway." An unknown MS source claims
that preference will be gone from the production version of IE6, but as of
now it's still there, so no, you *can't* disable the tags.
Current betting is running high that within a year (the real pessimists say
6 months) IE6 will ship with smart tags turned on by default, and the above
preference setting will be back in the browser. It's funny how no one I've
heard from on this issue trusts MS to keep its word on this.
Have fun,
Arlen
Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
DNRC 224
Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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