I read an article that Bill Gates said that his companies approach for browser technology was geared to corporations and not a hand full on independent web developers.
A kick in the teeth to millions of users of his products and people like us. Oh well, he always was and always will be the master of stealing intellectual property. Erik -----Original Message----- From: Pace Computing Limited [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 9:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] Re: Recomendation needed Thanks Bob! You may have saved me a couple of hours in the near future of trying to figure out what the heck is going on with my Flash!!! Too bad ole Bill just can't get it through his thick skull that he will never OWN the Internet! Jenni --- Bob Laurence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to Kevin Yank from site point for pointing this > out. > > Eolas Technologies Inc. is the company that first > invented and now owns the > rights to external programs running seamlessly within a > Web browser. Never > heard of them? Don't feel bad -- neither had I until > their recent legal > action against Microsoft. But way back in 1994 they > demonstrated the > technology with a modified version of the NCSA Mosaic 2.4 > browser and > patented the technology so that big companies like > Microsoft couldn't take > it away from them. In 1995, they released their own > browser called > WebRouser, which demonstrated the technology. > > As the owners of the technology, they are entitled to > require licensing fees > of any company that wants to implement their own version > of the technology > in their products. The recent legal battle was to > determine if Microsoft > should have paid those fees, or if (as it claims) it > developed the plug-in > technology on their own before Eolas filed for the > patent. > > Well, Microsoft lost the case. But rather than pay the > licensing fees on the > technology, it has decided to modify Internet Explorer so > that it no longer > infringes on the patent. Unfortunately, these changes > mean that every > plug-in on a page (i.e. Flash movies, Java applets, PDF > documents, etc.) > will require the user to click click on a message box > like this one as the > page is loading. > > Press OK to continue loading the content of this page. > > ----- > OK > ----- > > Pretty annoying, huh? Microsoft has published complete > details of the > changes it will make in upcoming service packs to > Internet Explorer, along > with a pre-release version of Internet Explorer with the > changes in place. > These new documents explain a number of different ways to > modify pages that > use plug-ins so that the Eolas patent does not apply, and > the prompt is not > displayed. > The simplest method is to write the tag(s) that load the > plug-in dynamically > from an external JavaScript file. So say you have the > following code in your > page: > > <object data="movie.swf" width="640" > height="480" > type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> > <param > name="movie" value="movie.swf" /> > </object> > To avoid the message box prompt as the page is loading, > you need to replace > this code with a reference to an external JavaScript > file: > <script type="text/javascript" > src="movie.js"> > </script> > Inside that movie.js file, you need to write the plug-in > tags dynamically: > document.write('<object data="movie.swf" '); > document.write(' width="640" height="480" '); > document.write( > ' type="application/x-shockwave-flash">'); > document.write( > ' <param name="movie" value="movie.swf" > />'); > document.write('</object>'); > > Pretty straightforward, but really annoying if you use a > lot of plug-ins on > your site, or if you use server-side code to generate > your plug-in tags > dynamically. > Things would certainly be simpler for we developers if > Microsoft simply paid > for the license for the plug-in technology, but it has > repeatedly denied > that Eolas' claim to the technology is valid, and that > even if it were it's > asking far too much for the license. > Of course, Internet Explorer isn't the only browser that > supports seamless > loading of plug-ins. In an interview, Eolas founder > Michael Doyle has stated > that they will continue to offer free licenses for > non-commercial > implementations of the technology (which presumably > includes the Mozilla > Project). > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Navarro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:51 PM > Subject: [wdvltalk] Re: Recomendation needed > > > > At 10/15/2003, you wrote: > > >why in the world would you specify java as a > requirement? > > >just curious > > > > Because it needs to work in any browser. Does Opera > support JavaScript? > > > > --Dave > > > > > > ____ . 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