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
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