On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:07:59AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: > Suppose you create a web page, and you make a word or phrase > highlighted because it's a tag for one of your own URLs (i.e. > _you_ want the reader to be able to follow a link at that point). > > And suppose the word or phrase is one of the things that MS Smart > Tags wants to hijack. > > The question is: Who trumps whom?
Background information: Smart Tags don't create a link in the normal sense. Rather, they create a pop-up list of links so that, e.g., you could right-click on the word "Microsoft" and get the options to go to microsoft.com, stock listings for MSFT, their last dozen press releases, etc. There's a plugin (I don't recall which or from who) which advertises something else as its main capability, but also happens to do implement a function which is, essentially, third-party Smart Tags. The way it handles this situation is to simply add the original link to the list of options, thus making it unclear to the user which link (if any) was placed by the page's author. Hopefully, given the way that MS has implemented the Smart Tag UI, left-clicking would take you to the author's link and right-clicking would bring up MS's set of links. But don't think I'm optimistic about that... (Well, actually, I hope that Smart Tags go the way of Bob, but I don't think that's real likely.) -- With the arrest of Dimitry Sklyarov it has become apparent that it is not safe for non US software engineers to visit the United States. - Alan Cox "To prevent unauthorized reading..." - Adobe eBook reader license
