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Re: RIP: ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer?
From: "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp () wsr ac at>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:12:22 +0200
On 2003-09-02 13:02:39 -0400, Igor Filippov wrote:
It seems the patent in question covers not only client-side executables, but server-side as well: "Once selected the program object executes on the user's (client) computer or may execute on a remote server or additional remote computers" So, not only javascript/flash/java are subjects of this copyright but any CGI/whatnot application as well - or am I reading it wrong ?
I think you are. I'm not sure about reading it correctly, either, but two central parts of the patent seem to be that the object is embedded in the web page (which is not the case for CGI etc. - they send whole web pages) and that there is a communication channel between the program and the browser window for communicating UI events to allow using the program interactively. While the language is vague, this implies to me events like mouse movements and clicks, keystrokes, etc, not just the clicking on a submit button or link (which wouldn't have been any innovation in 1994, forms did already exist). The patent as a whole sounds very much like the embedded X servers which appeared around 1995/96, IIRC. I think there was at least a free implementation from the X11 consortium and a commercial one from Hummingbird (both as plugins for Netscape). hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | Unser Universum wäre betrüblich |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR / LUGA | unbedeutend, hätte es nicht jeder | | | hjp () wsr ac at | Generation neue Probleme bereit. __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Seneca, naturales quaestiones
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- Re: RIP: ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer? Simon Brady (Sep 02)
- Re: RIP: ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer? Igor Filippov (Sep 03)
- Re: RIP: ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer? Peter J. Holzer (Sep 04)
- RE: RIP: ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer? Drew Copley (Sep 03)
- Re: RIP: ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer? Igor Filippov (Sep 03)