<snip>From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: September 02, 2003 6:02 AM Subject: [wdvltalk] Re: watch this space: changes to IE?
Yea, most of our stuff is quite "plain" but we've written intensive intranet type business applications using ms technologies (some other departments used java plugins) and it will influence those quite badly. :/ more money for developers though :) bad for business :( </snip> I'm already getting email from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list showing prior art for the Eolas technology: "I don't know about anyone else, but there is SO much prior art and information showing the obviousness and the non-novelty of Mr. Doyle patent it really isn't funny anymore - but shocking and even more shocking Microsoft is having a hard time with this. In my opinion, this RFC is the smoking gun. Check out this particular section along with my HLS inline comments: From (1985) RFC 965........." It's (maybe not so) unbelievable that M$ is backing down on this especially after re-reading Cringley's 1998 article: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19981203.html and knowing now, that they didn't get a license from Eolas. I'm curious as to just what can be done with any browser, not just IE, to get around this as I was wrong according to Cringley: "The patent also covers the use of any algorithm that implements dynamic, bi-directional communications between Web browsers and external applications. Every Web browser you can name currently supports embedded applets, and is therefore in violation of the Eolas patent. But wait, there's more! The Eolas patent covers the whole concept of executable content, which is at the very foundation of Java. So it looks like Java, too, is in violation of the patent. For that matter, so is Microsoft's Internet Explorer and ActiveX." Hmmm, cheers, Mark ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
