Microsoft to Change Smart Tags Feature
June 17th, 2001
Yahoo! Groups : decentralization: “Because of the — and there’s no better word for it, we’re shocked –
uproar, the following changes are going to be made:
1. smart tags off by default (they were on by default to exercise the code,
get Watson crashes)
2. the user-overrides-authored-meta-tag option removed
3. no recognizers shipping in box. So until you do have a recognizer
installed, when you click on the smart tag button, you get navigated to a
gallery from which you can download desired recognizers.” To me, this reads like good news. The smart tags feature, implemented as above, gives everyone involved flexibility (including site owners), and that’s a good thing.
