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Use of Meta Tag - MSSmartTagsPreventParsing
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We've inherited some sites from another developer that had the following tag:
All references I can find to it are from 2004. What is the purpose and is it worth including in pages/sites we build?
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The tag is to prevent Microsoft Smart Tags from rendering. It was only included in beta versions of IE6, and no other browsers since. It's not worth including; you can safely delete these tags.
An explanation of smart tags on wikipedia.
The same question on stackoverflow.
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