I'll tell you what's going happen: There will be a workaround to get an SVG document automatically focused in an EMBED. Many will do the same on other apps with elegance and style. Let Enolas come after every raggedy-assed developer. After all, the big guys with the deep pockets will have complied.
I'm happy, again :) Francis --- In [email protected], "Geoffrey Swenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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:svg- [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: svg-developers- [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] subject=Unsubscribe> > > * 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/
