Eric, I believe you must mean Kevin Johnston's patent 5,546,528 (ca: 1996)
AKA the Tabbed Palette -- ala Floating Toolbar. And even though MM and Adobe
settled in '02, I don't read KJ's patent as covering much of the UI feature
set as stated. As I recall the people at Adobe forgot their own influences
-- as we all do under the influence of corporate attorney. Note the date of
filing of the patent was June 1994. We had toolbars, we had floating
windows, we had tabs, we had visual groupers.... we even had failed
paintpro... what Adobe got was a lenient reading of prior art.
But that is off the topic...
.e.
Message: 8
Subject: Re: Swiss Army Toolbar?
From: Eric M.Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 12:01:13 -0800
I actually have (had - it was years ago) a framework that did just=20
this. I was booed off the NUG by people who wouldn't touch it for fear=20=
of being sued by Adobe, who has patents on that style of interface.=20
They successfully sued Macromedia a number of years ago over=20
Macromedia's use of those interface elements in Freehand and=20
Dreamweaver.
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