good grief, i'm surprised they haven't decided to patent air & water. thx, rick, i
guess.
Folks -- go read this -- it's spooky. The patent seems to overlap W3C initiatives on
CSS & XML.
How in the dickens could they get a patent on something they didn't develop??
>From THE BULLETIN: SEYBOLD NEWS & VIEWS ON ELECTRONIC
PUBLISHING, Volume 4, No. 19, February 4, 1999
http://www.seyboldreport.com/
MICROSOFT AWARDED STYLE SHEET PATENT
In January, the U.S. Patent Office awarded Microsoft a patent that could
have a major impact on Web standards. The patent, which broadly covers "the
use of style sheets in an electronic publishing system," appears to
describe some of the key concepts used in the World Wide Web Consortium's
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and eXtensible Style Language (XSL) standards.
Specifically, it claims that the method of applying style sheets in
documents rendered by the customer's computer (as is done by all Web
browsers) is different from previous style sheet implementations.
-more-
> Kathy E. Gill
>
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> From: richard winter[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> http://www.camworld.com/misc/mscsspatent.txt
>
> opinions?
>
>
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