If you don't want Microsoft products to automatically generate smart tags
on your web pages, then simply include this tag. It must be included on each
page of your site for which you do not desire this feature. It has no effect
on smart tags which you insert yourself.
Don't create smart tags on the current page
<meta name= mssmarttagspreventparsing content= true >;
What effect does this tag have. <meta name=
mssmarttagspreventparsing content= true >;
www.webmasterworld.com/forum5/3796.htm -
<meta
name=
mssmarttagspreventparsing content= true >;
The links page is linked to by all others pages on sites, and before I
renamed the link directory page it was a pr5 but the links pages
themselves where getting no pr, all where pr0, do you think this tag has
something to do with it.
choster
This tag should have nothing to do with it. MSSmartTags was a highly
controversial extension to Internet Explorer which Microsoft proposed a
few years ago. The idea in short: when you visit a web page, IE would
scan for certain words or phrases and highlight them distinctively (a
bit like spelling and grammar errors are given a squiggly underline in
MS Word), and link them to a network of sites-- which most took to mean
MSN advertisers.
The
mssmarttagspreventparsing
meta tag
was the proposed mechanism whereby an author could block this behavior
on his/her pages. As SmartTags were never implemented in IE 6, the
meta is
somewhat superfluous. But it should not have any impact on any search
engines.
The
Smart Tags Weblog : Home
Add this meta tag to the <head> section of every
page you serve: <meta
name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"> How to
participate ...
smarttags.manilasites.com/ - 11k - Sep 14, 2005 -
What are Smart Tags? 
6/7/01: "Little Word-like squiggly lines under words in Web pages.
When you click on the word, whether or not the author created a link for
that word, it will take you to a Microsoft website where they'll tell
you more about it."
Here's a
screen shot showing
Scripting News marked up with Smart Tags.
How to turn smart tags off
Add this meta tag to the <head> section of every page you serve:
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">
How to participate
If you manage websites at a publication, university, government agency,
business, technology company, even at Microsoft, hurry up and figure out
how you're going to turn the smart tags off for the content you're
responsible for.
The UserLand solution
I did the work this morning to make it easy to turn off Smart Tags in
any web site hosted by Frontier or Radio UserLand.
Samples:
postFilters.disableMicrosoftHacks.
If you do a similar filter for other server environments, please
announce it here and I'll make sure everyone knows about it.
<meta
name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">
... Programs - Affiliate Community > Affiliate
Webmasters > Newbie Corner ·
Reload this Page <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing"
content="TRUE"> ...
www.casinoaffiliateprograms.com/bb/showthread.php?t=7265&goto=nextoldest
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<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing"
content="TRUE">
This tag should have nothing to do with it. MSSmartTags was a highly
controversial extension to Internet Explorer which Microsoft proposed a
few years ago. The idea in short: when you visit a web page, IE would
scan for certain words or phrases and highlight them distinctively (a
bit like spelling and grammar errors are given a squiggly underline in
MS Word), and link them to a network of sites-- which most took to mean
MSN advertisers.
The
MSSmartTagsPreventParsing meta tag was the proposed mechanism
whereby an author could block this behavior on his/her pages. As
SmartTags were never implemented in IE 6, the meta is somewhat
superfluous. But it should not have any impact on any search engines.
Introduction
to META tags at Dreamweaver FAQ.com
<META NAME="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing"
content="TRUE"> This disables the MicroSoft
IE 6.x Smart tags feature. Read about what smart tags are and why you
...
www.dwfaq.com/Tutorials/Miscellaneous/more_metas.asp
- 27k - Sep 15, 2005 -
<META NAME="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing"
content="TRUE">
This disables the MicroSoft I.E. 6.x Smart tags feature.
Read about what smart tags are and
why you might want to disable them.
Webdev
Entry - Cody Lindley: Building an xhtml webpage - Steps ...
<meta name="mssmarttagspreventparsing"
content="true"> <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar"
content="false"> <meta http-equiv="msthemecompatible"
content="no" /> ...
codylindley.com/Webdev/61/building-an-xhtml-webpage-steps-template--the-details
-
Because many users view websites using Windows XP and Internet
Explorer, add the following meta tags.
<meta name="mssmarttagspreventparsing"
content="true">
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="false">
<meta http-equiv="msthemecompatible" content="no" />
A XHTML Transitional Template
When I begin a new website I usually start with a generic template
which is shown below. If you borrow my template make sure to read the
comments as not all tags apply to all situations.
<!-- For use with apache & php -->
<?php
ob_start("ob_gzhandler");
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="author" content="Cody Lindley - codylindley.com." />
<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright 2004 - codylindley.com." />
<meta name="description" content="Provide a meta tag description which
contains keywords from the sites content. (250 character max)" />
<!-- Do not archive this page -->
<meta name="robots" content="noarchive" />
<!-- This meta tag is only good for a homepage that frequently change
-->
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />
<!-- This meta tag should be used on all pages past the homepage -->
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />
<!-- Microsoft Handlers -->
<meta name="mssmarttagspreventparsing"
content="true" />
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="false" />
<meta http-equiv="msthemecompatible" content="no" />
<!-- A basic reference to a Cascading Style Sheet (typically 4.0+
browsers) -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="simple.css" />
<!-- A sophistocated reference to a Cascading Style Sheet (typically
5.0+ browsers) -->
<style type="text/css" media="all">
<!--
@import "/css/global.css";
-->
</style>
<!-- Javascript Includes -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/global.js"></script>
<!-- Favicon -->
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/ico"
href="/images/global/favicon.ico" />
<title>Add a unique title that describes this specific page</title>
</head>
<body class="specify_a_class" id="specify_a_id">
<a href="#content" title="Go To Content" accesskey="2" class="hide" >Go
To Content</a>
<div id="container">
<div id="head"></div>
<div id="content"></div>
<div id="foot"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
META
statements to help search engines
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing"
content="TRUE"> (which prevents the MS
Smart tags working with the newest IE browsers. Others could be of the
form ...
www.waller.co.uk/meta.htm
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What are Meta Statements
META statements help the search engines to reference your website.
Some people can get away with not having them on some search engines,
but why chance it?
You can invent your own META statements for your own purposes. Only a
few are sometimes taken to account by others.
The two required statements:
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="Some words here">
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="this, that, theother, ">
There are some other useful METAs discussed below:
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=http://www.whatever.com">
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing"
content="TRUE">
(which prevents the MS Smart tags working with the newest IE browsers.
Others could be of the form
<meta name="rating" content="general">
(the options are mature, restricted, 14 years)
<meta name="security" content="public">
<meta name="distribution" content="global">
<meta name="generator" content="name of your authoring tool inserted
automatically in most cases">
<meta name="author" content="your name address URL and whatever">
How you interpret them is up to you and your colleagues, perhaps in
an Intranet situation. If anyone looks at your HTML code then perhaps
the author META will be interesting to them.
Andrew
Wooster’s nextthing.org » Fun With HTTP Headers
X-Meta-MSSmartTagsPreventParsing: TRUE.
Speaking of Microsoft, apparently the
IIS team felt the need to advertise the domain of the site the user was
...
www.nextthing.org/archives/2005/08/07/fun-with-http-headers - 53k -
Sep 14, 2005 -
Similarly, people are still
blocking Microsoft’s Dumb Tags:
fozbaca.org:
June 2001 Archives
MSSmartTagsPreventParsing: TRUE X-Meta-MSSmartTagsPreventParsing:
TRUE as response
headers, the latter since X-Meta-Foo in the response headers is
...
fozbaca.org/archives/2001/06/
- 43k -
Disabling Smart Tags under Apache 1.2 and later
From Red Hat Apache Guru Mark Cox, via Drew Meeks at Red
Hat:
Adding
Header add MSSmartTagsPreventParsing "TRUE"
to httpd.conf should add the response header to every
page served.
Mark and Drew haven't tested this, but I pass it along. You
can test the efficacy of this approach at
http://209.204.184.53/, which returns both
MSSmartTagsPreventParsing: TRUE
X-Meta-MSSmartTagsPreventParsing: TRUE
as response headers, the latter since X-Meta-Foo in the
response headers is interpreted by some browsers as
equivalent to a <META name="Foo"> tag.
http://209.204.184.50/ returns the same content without
the above headers.
Requires that mod_headers is installed on your copy of
Apache: See
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_headers.html. You
can alter the scope of this by placing the "Header"
directive inside a VirtualHost, Directory, Location, or
Files directive.
I grabbed the whole thing incase the refered site disapears in
the future.
note
to self: <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing"
content="TRUE ...
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing"
content="TRUE"> is possibly. <meta
name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing"
content="TRUE"> ...
www.notetoself.co.uk/old/2001/08/meta_namemssmar.html
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<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"> is
possibly
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">
is possibly the most important header tag of the future.
here's why...
meta
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing"
content='TRUE"> (Stops links that steal
hits from your site) meta NAME="rating" CONTENT= ( Some
people has set there ...
www.firstserver.cc/meta.html - 6k -
All this information is
added to fields in there database for later use if needed or
searched for it is always good to go over board when it comes to
searce engines, you want to be indexed right the first time :)
> <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true" />
Is there a good list of these ie6 specific meta tags? Or IE5 as well.
Meta Tags what are they ?, Web design articles by the Web Witch
<META NAME="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true">. This is another one of
those special tags, that deals solely with Microsoft Network.. as they tend ...
paganart.dreamdivining.com/Meta-Tags.html - 11k -
How often do you want the spider to
come back and re index the site? Default is 2 weeks, as you can see I
have set mine much higher as I add content all the time and the site
would be badly out of date on the engines if I left it at default.
<META NAME="doc-rights"
CONTENT="Copywritten work">
<META NAME="doc-class"
CONTENT="Completed">
Self explanatory.
<META NAME="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing"
content="true">
MSSmartTagsPreventParsing
by "Kenneth Dombrowski"
<kenneth.dombrowski(at)designmattersinc.com> |
| Date: |
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:32:48 -0400 |
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I couldn't find anything in the archives about this, but I haven't been
on this list very long.
it's been awhile since I checked out other people's META tags but I
happened to notice the following
<META NAME="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">
While looking at other people's javascripts.
A google search brought up this page from Aug 2001, titled "Use this tag
to *PREVENT MICROSOFT* high-jacking /using your site.":
http://www.therapist-uk.net/Net/Isp/IspHelp/MetaTags2.htm
Which admittedly I couldn't get through entirely, it seems to degrade
into some kind of sales pitch for web dev, but read enough of to become
seriously alarmed by microsoft (it had been awhile)
IE can scan the text of your web pages and somehow highlight certain
keywords that it looks for, making them into a different kind of
hyperlink. apparently MS has so far refrained from doing this (I'm on XP
w/IE6 right now and have never seen one of these links), but once
implemented, the only way to "opt-out" of your websites being used by
microsoft for advertising is to include the above META tag
The google search also returned a lot of webmasters outraged at a whole
"scumware" movement using (the same? Similar?) technology. seemingly
dominated by a company called top text who has a plugin called ezula,
which seems to come with file sharing software kazaa. Like everything in
internet advertising it seems to have impacted the adult sites first,
but also from august is this thread by non-adult webmasters whose users
were being taken to adult sites
http://www.ihelpyouservices.com/forums/t415/s.html
Which I found by this dmoz search
http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Business/Allegedly_Unethical_Firms/Ezula/
It looks like everyone should put the
<META NAME="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">
Tag in all of their pages.
Does anyone know if this is sufficient?
We're supposed trust them to write software "ethical" enough to respect
this tag?
Have there been any lawsuits about this in America?
If I'm wrong about any of this, please correct me. I am a little
confused that nothing is coming up about this on a website I've ever
heard of before. Perhaps because it did effect the adult sites and
peer-to-peer users first?
Ah ha, a mile long slashdot discussion:
