: What is the SKYPE_TOOLBAR meta? I need to make an audit for a website and I discovered a "new" meta called "SKYPE_TOOLBAR", it looks like that: <meta name="SKYPE_TOOLBAR" content="SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE"

@RJPawlick198

Do not remove this. Someone has put it there for a purpose.

Its useful because people (often unknowingly) install the Skype toolbar, which horribly throws out the design of a website in many instances.

I add that code to all of the websites I build, because you just get complaints or problems somewhere down the track.

As of today's date, this solution still works for me.

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@Angie530

That's a vendor-specific tag to stop an addon Skype installs in Internet Explorer from highlighting phone numbers it detects in web documents. See a reference as solution 3 in this blog post. From other mentions I've run across, it may not even work (anymore?) or is at least flaky. At any rate, it's safe to remove overall.

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