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[FYI] Have you been smart tagged? WinXP IE6 has a little list
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- Subject: [FYI] Have you been smart tagged? WinXP IE6 has a little list
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:22:46 +0200
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19675.html
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Have you been smart tagged? WinXP IE6 has a little list
By John Lettice
Posted: 13/06/2001 at 15:00 GMT
Recent builds of the Internet Explorer 6 beta have included the IE
implementation of Microsoft's smart tag technology, prompting
choruses of disapproval from the media. Which is of course
understandable - smart tag technology parses its way through a web
page, underlines the words it's been pre-programmed to react to, and
inserts its own hyperlinks.
[...]
That's what Microsoft says you can do to block them if you don't like
them, but we kind of like the Electronic Frontier Foundation's
suggestion that you could sue Redmond for breach of copyright, as
smart tags create unauthorised derivative works.
[...]
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