RE: How Microsoft will be changing IE to avoid the Eolas patent

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Plugins actually first showed up in Netscape Navigator in the mid '90s with
the <EMBED> tag.

I also wonder if plugins were turned off completely, would people really
miss them?  Non-HTML content can always be viewed in a separate application.
For example, I long ago turned off PDF viewing in a Web browser window
because of reliably problems with Acrobat Reader.  I have found that things
work a whole lot better if a fresh copy of Acrobat Reader is fired up for
each PDF file.

Richard 

-----Original Message-----
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 12:03 PM
To: Florian Weimer
Cc: Richard M. Smith; funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] How Microsoft will be changing IE to avoid the Eolas
patent 

On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 11:39:54 +0100, Florian Weimer said:

> I don't understand W3C's involvement, either.  Plugins threaten 
> interoperability and accessibility.  Why is W3C so fond of that?

They drank the Microsoft kook-aid?
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