> Subject: RE: OT -- Microsoft's Smart Tags > Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:07:59 +0100 (BST) > From: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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?
As I understand it, if a "Smart Tag" and a link overlap a menu would come up to ask the user which one to take. Better than hijacking the link completely, but not by much. I hope that "Smart Tags" stay on a permanent hold. -- Marc Shapiro "If you drink melomel every day, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you will live to be 150 years old, Please visit "The Meadery" at: unless your wife shoots you." http://www.bigfoot.com/~m_shapiro/ -- Dr. Ferenc Androczi, winemaker, Little Hungary Farm Winery
