I don't think Microsoft, Adobe, or anyone else other than Eolas are happy about this, and Eolas would be a lot happier if M$ would just pay them their hefty ransom. There is no conspiracy against the Embed tag needed to explain their actions.
M$ is going to get a lot of flak for this, but they just don't want to encourage Eolas at all who have been legally contentious and extremely greedy from day one on a rather bogus patent of the technically obvious with plenty of prior art that invalidates it. Basically, none of the big companies in software, and even the many of the open source people, want Eolas to win on this one, since Eolas will be trying to extract revenue from Mozilla, Opera, and others after they get done with M$. What you should be doing is petitioning congress to end software patents. They have caused way too many problems, don't really protect intellectual property at all, and have been mostly abused. Geoffrey J. Swenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francis Hemsher Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 5:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [svg-developers] Re: IE7 Beta 2 has an SVG Embed Problem John Dowdell wrote: > > Francis Hemsher wrote: > > I think you left out the most germane part of my statement... > > "This was not a problem in IE5.5, IE6, or your previous IE7 Beta > > issue" > > Yes, Microsoft just introduced this change on March 1, for IE6 > installations and the new IE7 beta... contemporaneous reporting here: > http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2006/03/ie_activex_chan.cfm > > The behavior of extensions in that browser did indeed change only very > recently. > > jd > I read your above comments. They don't go far enough to call MS on an obvious attempt to use a current legal situation to depreciate the EMBED, for self-serving reasons. Their "click me" approach has destroyed the intuitive process required to view dynamic SVG documents. Francis Francis ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- _____ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS * Visit your group "svg-developers <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers> " on the web. * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> Service. _____ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
