On 10/17/01 11:47 PM +0200, Jonas Liljegren wrote:

> More thoughts on the subject:
>
> What I was looking for is probably better described as "online website
> creation tool".  The creator should be guided through some simple steps.
>
>   1. Type, copy or upload texts
>   2. Put the data in a group/section
>   3. Chose a site navigation concept
>      a. navigation widget
>      b. navigation location
>   4. Add details to pages
>   5. Decorations

For what it's worth, it was announced today that IBM was awarded a patent
for template-based interactive web-page generators.  (no, I'm not kidding,
and yes, the wording on the patent is that generic).

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=10&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1=HTML&OS=HTML&RS=HTML

So you probably better check with IBM on licensing, or get a lawyer to work
on getting the patent voided based on previous comparable work and common
usage, if you want to do something like that.

Sickening, isn't it?
-- 
Dave Miller    [EMAIL PROTECTED] + [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lead Software Engineer/System Administrator, Syndicomm Online
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