Clive Lansink wrote:
So the concept of place markers on a web page is to my mind simply an
extension of a concept that has been established for documents for a
long time. But what then of the way Freedom have achieved it, i.e.
by relying on the number of HTML tags? Given that the place marker
can't be stored in the document itself because it is a remote web
page, it is obvious that it has to be created locally by capturing
certain information about the page. You could simply remember the
URL and the character position in the document, but that approach
would quickly break down for dynamic pages where the data can change.
As a programmer myself, I'm sure I would have come up with the same
solution, i.e. rely instead on something more constant like the
number of HTML tags, after only a few minutes pondering. This is why
I say that the so called invention in this case is not inventive; it
is merely the manifestation of good logical thinking that is the
essence of writing software.
Yeah, I'm just a web developer not a lawyer, but personally I find it
hard to distinguish Freedom Scientific's 2004 invention of, um, counting
HTML elements in order to identify a position in a document from the
much earlier (but vastly more sophisticated) offerings of W3C:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath
http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xptr
--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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