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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" />
I've never seen that before and I don't manage to find relevant info about it, does someone know what is its use?
PS. There is nothing else related to Skype on the website.
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.
<meta name="SKYPE_TOOLBAR" content="SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE"> into your page head still disables the Skype phone number highlighting. I installed Skype Click To Call plug-in and enabled it in IE11. A test webpage with phone numbers in it, has the tags modified by the window.SkypeClick2Call object (which is inserted into the page by the plug-in). Added the meta tag into the test page head and the phone numbers are no longer modified (neither is the window.SkypeClick2Call object injected).
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.
