This is off-topic (and extremely hypothetical until Microsoft and the W3C actually announce something official!) - can you please move it to cf-community!!
On Sunday, Sep 14, 2003, at 10:02 US/Pacific, Kevin Graeme wrote: > Another bit of possible prior art that I keep wondering about is > Apple's > Hypercard and XCMDs. > > Hypercard is one of the foundation examples of hypertext. XCMD stands > for > "eXternal CoMmanD". It was a way to incorporate any external media or > datasource into the hypertext document. That included QuickTime video > as > well as network databases. I recall a project that was built tying > Oracle > into Hypercard feeding the page content and allowing people to do > queries. > Hmm. > > Also, Gopher even had some of this. It was a distributed hypertext > medium > that could launch media clips as well. > > -Kevin > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ken Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 7:00 AM > Subject: RE: No so good news > > >> Prior art found perhaps? >> >> http://www.ozzie.net/blog/stories/2003/09/12/savingTheBrowser.html >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 7:51 AM >> To: CF-Talk >> Subject: Re: No so good news >> >> >> Jim Davis wrote: >> >>> No problem. It's just that some people are taking this as an "MS >>> finally gets theirs" situation when the ramifications are >>> (unfortunately) really much larger than that. >>> >>> I'm waiting for the definition of "browser" to come up - any >>> hyper-text >>> system (CD ROM encyclopedias, help systems, computer assisted >>> training, >>> etc) may be affected by this. >> >> Any hypertext system capable of network operation is affected by >> it. The text of the patent is quite clear (and entertaining). >> >> >>> I fully expect it to be thrown out in a higher court >> >> I don't. The only conceivable reason for it being thrown out is >> prior art. I fully expect Microsoft to be capable of finding >> that, so I presume it doesn't exist. >> >> What might happen is that a court orders Eolas to license the >> technology under non-discriminating conditions. But they should >> be willing to do so anyway, they don't compete with browser >> makers so selling/licensing the patent is the only way to make >> money from it. >> >> Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
