<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Eric,</div><div><br></div><div>Your email implies that this policy only applies to 3rd party software (not a big deal), but the linked web page seems to be saying all 3rd party links, which is much more onerous. If it is *all* links, I suggest we (I am willing to volunteer) write a javascript function as part of our template that does this automatically.</div><div><br></div><div>Scott</div><br><div><div>On Apr 6, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Eric M Martinez wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">DOI/USGS has issued disclaimers that are required for USGS (DOI) sites that link to third party software (i.e. Google Earth, etc...). Here is the Web Dev blog post which has further information about these guidlines:<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://communities.usgs.gov/blogs/usgsdev/web-dev/3rd-party-toolsservices/">http://communities.usgs.gov/blogs/usgsdev/web-dev/3rd-party-toolsservices/</a><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div></div></span></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>~Eric.<br></div><div><br></div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>EHPweb mailing list<br><a href="mailto:EHPweb@geohazards.usgs.gov">EHPweb@geohazards.usgs.gov</a><br>https://geohazards.usgs.gov/mailman/listinfo/ehpweb<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>