Posts Tagged ‘meta’

META Tag ‘MSThemeCompatible’

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Okay, so this one’s a little old, and I just found it while looking at some of Microsoft Update’s HTML source, it appears to be relevant for MSIE6 and newer and may be responsible for some interesting styling and behaviour of form components.

A quick search for it turns up lots of discussions about other browers such as Firefox being effected if the value is not defined… as such it’s likely a good idea to define it in your pages to be sure.

An old MSDN entry reads…

When running on Windows XP, Internet Explorer 6 and the content displayed in it sports a look and feel that matches the Windows XP platform. You can opt to have your HTML content not take on the same look as the operating system for elements such as buttons and scroll bars, by adding the following META tag:
<meta http-equiv=”MSThemeCompatible” content=”no” />

Cheers

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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

Use of this tag will disable the Image Toolbar (normally accessed via right-click) within MSIE. Typically it is enabled whenever an image larger than 130×130 is displayed.

Implementation:
Add the following to the <head> section of your webpage(s):
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="false" />

Alternately, you COULD use some proprietary MSIE attributes on the <img /> tag.
<img src="..." galleryimg="false" />

Even when you use the META tag to disable this feature for all images, you can explicitly re-enable it with the following proprietary tag…
<img src="..." galleryimg="true" />

References:

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Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

The story behind this tag is one of virtue. Microsoft, as they do TOO often, added a ‘feature’ in beta versions of MSIE 6.0 that enabled the browser itself to analyze the content on a given page, and insert links to other websites. This was “spun” as being good the the visitors of your website, because they could be exposed to related products or services. Unfortunately, the webmaster and site owners had no say in what content was being linked or to where… which could be a competitor!

This tag was added as a method to prevent these “Smart Tags” from operating on websites… in the end, Microsoft did not leave this feature (enabled?) in the released version of Internet Explorer 6!

Implementation:
Add the following to the <head> section of your webpage(s):
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE" />

References:

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GeoTags

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

To build on my recent post on ‘geoURL’, there’s also another system available known as GeoTags. Adding your site to their list is also trivial…

1. The “hardest” step – find your Latitude and Longitude, several sites like Google Maps make this simple if you don’t have access to a GPS reciever…

2. Add the following to the <head> section of your page(s):
<meta name="geo.position" content="41.937891;-88.142111" />
<meta name="geo.placename" content="Carol Stream" />
<meta name="geo.region" content="US-IL" />

NOTE: The above entries are my own, yours should be different.

3. After you’ve uploaded the change, submit your site at the following URL:
http://geotags.com/

FYI, It appears that they’ve also worked out a way to define your location in an RSS Feed… more on that later!

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PICS Implementation Guide

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS)

This was originally designed to help parents and teachers control what children access on the Internet, but it also facilitates other uses for labels, including code signing and privacy. The PICS platform is one on which other rating services and filtering software have been built.’

References:

HTTP Headers (optional):


Protocol: {PICS-1.1 {headers PICS-Label}}
PICS-Label: (PICS-1.1 'http://www.weburbia.com/safe/ratings.htm' l r (s 0))

Example HTML:


<html>
<head>
<title>example</title>
<meta http-equiv="PICS-Label" content="(PICS-1.1 'http://www.weburbia.com/safe/ratings.htm' l r (s 0))" />
</head>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>

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