> The prior art:
> http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~wei/viola/aboutEolasMicrosoft.html

Pathetic. Thanks for the information.

Stef


On Vendredi, oct 10, 2003, at 15:34 Europe/Zurich, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If I understand the changes correctly then the Squeak plugin will be
> affected in its current form. The most ridiculous implication of the  
> change
> seems to be this:
>
> 	"If the OBJECT element used to load the control contains PARAM
> elements but none of the PARAM elements specify a source of data  
> external to
> the current Web page, then the control does not access remote data."
>
> Given that IE shouldn't even attempt to interpret the contents of the  
> PARAMs
> I wonder what "a source of data external to the current Web page"  
> means. The
> way I figure it IE is probably looking for URLs in the value of the  
> PARAM -
> so we'll have to obfuscate any URLs so they don't look like URLs  
> anymore.
>
> Software patents ... what can you say.
>
> For further reading on this one check out:
>
> The patent:
> http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph- 
> Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&
> u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='5838906'.WKU.&OS=PN/ 
> 5838906&RS=PN/5
> 838906
>
> The owner:
> http://www.eolas.com/
>
> The /. thread:
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/08/ 
> 2311216&mode=thread&tid=113&tid=
> 123&tid=126&tid=95&tid=99
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On
>> Behalf Of Torsten.Bergmann at phaidros.com
>> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 6:15 PM
>> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> Subject: [OT] Squeak Plugin and patent
>>
>>
>> M$ has changed IE today:
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/ieupdate/activexchanges.asp
>>
>> Looks like the EOALA patent affects the Squeak webplugin
>> too!? Any short comments? (Hopefully I dont start a long
>> thread on patents here)
>>
>> Bye
>> Torsten
>>
>>
>>
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