![]() ![]() rat file for RSACi by default: I'm not sure why I would want to add an invalid file again, but OK. You can add your own custom PICS ratings system definitions - Windows just included the. IE didn't cop out implementing the whole shebang, either. Windows 98 (filename Windows/SYSTEM/RSACI.RAT). more categories follow.) An example PICS definition for the RSACi v1 vocabulary, taken from (description "No aggressive violence no natural or accidental violence.") Stanford University, who has studied the effects of media (description "The Recreational Software Advisory Council rating serviceįor the Internet. Did I mention this DSL uses S-expressions? 1 ((PICS-version 1.0) In fact, a website could even invent its own content ratings scheme in the PICS language and Not only can arbitrarily many ratings vocabularies exist, butĪ web page can add metadata classifying itself according to as many of them as it wishes. Instead, the PICS standard defines an entire DSL forĭefining custom ratings schemes. See, the PICS standard doesn't just define support for one particular ratings However, the rabbit hole actually goes even deeper than I previously knew. Have implemented it, though I am unsure if any actually did. This was an abortiveĮffort at a web standard for adding content ratings metadata to web pages. It was actually the product of a W3C standards effort, Platform for InternetĬontent Selection (PICS). Interestingly, this scheme wasn't some IE proprietary extension. You could also explicitly whitelist or blacklist specific websites: The “Find Rating Systems” button would take you here. Ineffective because so few sites actually included the rating metadata, orĭisable it (the default), making almost all of the web inaccessible although “Users can see sites that have no rating” option, making the mechanism largely That basically no websites actually did this. These RSACi criteria,and then secure these settings against being changed by Metadata to each page so that IE could determine whether the user should beĪllowed to access it IE allowed you to configure a maximum level for each of The idea, in other words, is that websites would conscientiously add this Of these RSACi criteria, and then secure these settings against being changedīy setting a special supervisor password. IE's support for this scheme allowed you to configure a maximum level for each Rewards injuring non-threatening creatures. Creatures injured or killed damage to realistic objects. No aggressive violence no natural or accidental violence.įighting. Non-explicit sexual touching.Įxplicit sexual activity. Use of epithets.Įxplicit or crude language. Strong, vulgar language obscene gestures. Expletives non-sexual anatomical references. Mild expletives or mild terms for body functions. How its content should be classified on four different axes: RSACi Axis The RSACi v1 vocabulary, which is shown in theĪbove dialog, allowed a web page to add a special element to indicate RSACi stands for “Recreational Software Advisory Council - Internet”, the RSACīeing an organisation which existed to come up with a system of classification That a webpage could be rated in terms of the profanity, nudity, sex, violence,Īlright, hands up: how many people remember this dialog in IE's Internet Options? For the curious, that “More info” would take you to this this broken link. This was essentially a standardised “parental controls” system. Now seems comically naive, but also completely impractical: namely, IE tried to There was one particular feature of IE which not only Quirks and peculiar features remain an interesting area of discussion from a ![]() Today, Internet Explorer has been consigned to the dustbin of history, yet its Memoirs from the old web: IE's crazy content rating system ![]()
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