Chris Hoess wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Heinrich wrote:
>> Parish wrote:
>>>
>>> Which is rather ironic because MS invented CSS *and* claim IE to be "the
>>> most W3C-standards-compliant browser in the world".
>>>
>>
>> I might be woefully *under*informed, but I've always come across the
>> invention of CSS in conjunction with the name H�kon Lie.
>
> What Microsoft did do is take out a patent on stylesheets in general. The
> status of it is (IMO) dubious, given the existence of prior art, but it
> has not yet been overturned. The usual intellectual property bogosity.
>
Oops! I should have known better than to assume patented == invented,
especially where some companies are concerned ;-)
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