Meta Tag Discussion

Bigwebmaster, very nice, concise description of exactly what happens. For the life of me I could not explain it without writing a book.

I will however say that in the early editions of XP and xp office, smart tags were indeed enabled by default. and there are now a great number of (spyware, adware) programs that do use smart tags technology. So it is still a good idea to use the tag regardless.

wowsers

learn something new everyday! interesting concept, and I never knew
til now. thx for the infos people.

Forgive me, but I've never used XP -- WIN 2K yes, but not XP --- so let's say you are browsing a site with XP-- what I think I understand you guys are saying is that XP uses these smart tags to highlight text/content in a website in a persons web page and make it clickable to wherever they want you to go? In that case I think I do finally understand the use and need for that meta tag. If I understood that wrong, someone correct me --- but it looks like that's the gist of it.

ATNO/TW: that is correct.

Thanks nuclei - sorry it took so much effort to understand that -- but not being an XP user it was totally new to me. Appreciate the tip and help.

Well I am an XP user and I have never seen such a thing. By default XP users do not see it, at least in my case. If you read what nuclei said it was enabled by default in earlier versions. Well it must be a really really early version because I preordered XP before it was even released and my smart tags are not enabled by default.

what about:
<meta name="emailspam" content="no">

it stops spiders from picking up any email addresses in the content of the page.

Wow - Thanks Musik - If that actually works, that will save tons of time trying to hide email addies inside of javascripts. Thanks for that one!

good one musik, if it works

I've actually created flash files containing the email addies. works!

//rose giggles mischievously and scoots out the door

oh...so was that a joke or something?

//rose winks and nods

*giggles furiously*

hehehehehe whoooooo - i had a feeling it was. boy am i glad i didn't
actually TRY it! I'd feel like such a goof right now.

actually i was worried noone would realise i was just kiddin around! Everyone said how cool it was! ahahaaaa too funny!


There is a way however for real to help stop spam bots from getting your email address and that is here:
http://www.ozzu.com/viewtopic.php?p=15148

(you prolly already know that one though)