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Microsoft Confirms IE Changes in Wake of Lawsuit
theodp writes "On Monday, Microsoft verified that it will be making what it calls "modest" changes to Windows and IE to meet the requirements of the jury verdict against it in the Eolas patent infringement case. Microsoft says it will finish making the changes to IE and Windows by early next year and will provide developers that use IE technology with documentation to help them modify their applications, Web pages, and browser plug-ins to work with the new plug-in scheme, which affects all Web pages that use plug-in technologies such as Adobe Reader, Apple QuickTime, Macromedia Flash, RealNetworks RealOne, all versions of Java, and Windows Media Player. A preview of the new user experience shows the user being prompted to confirm loading of each ActiveX control."
i think that the patent ruling is unfair to Microsoft... It's not right that they have to change thier whole brower just because of one company
Man, judging by that preview, this really sucks, for endusers as well as developers. The whole "does this load external data" thing is like trying to program in a new language, "Legalese.NET".
SO YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: The Comic for Dealing with Death
Sorry. The words "Microsoft", "IE", and "User Experience" in the same sentence as "user will be prompted to load each ActiveX control"....
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Brings a tear to me eye.
You mean...something GOOD came out of a lawsuit with Microsoft? W00t!
On the OSS side of things, this should be a (small) boon to projects like Konq and Mozilla that aren't going to require all the online applications and plugins to be re-coded.
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
Yeah, they agreed to a list of stuff.
tcd004
Actually, the dialog shown only allows you to click "OK". Who needs options when you've got Windows :-)
Using HTML in email is like putting sound effects on your phone calls. Just say <strong>no</strong>.
Huh, who'da thunk it. I expected MS to buy the Eolas patent, or Eolas itself if necessary, and turn the patent against AOL/Netscape, Opera, and the rest of their competition. They're actually not being vicious bastards in this one...
Right now, Bill Gates is smacking himself on the forehead.
The probability that someone is watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your actions.
How stupid can you be? "Noone" is pronounced like "noon", as anyone knows. Now, obviously the grandparent post was referring to Peter Noone, of the 1960s band Herman's Hermits. Do you really need such obvious things pointed out to you?
Yeah, "CowboyNeal is my active-x control."
"Lawyers are for sucks."
- Doug McKenzie
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I think you just told MicroSoft who you are.....
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I am a programmer. I am paid to produce syntax not grammar. Deal with it.
I think you're also thinking of "enforcing" them.
This is ridiculous. Basically the ruling appears to state that:
Plug-ins are OK as long they don't load external data
If they do, microsoft can't load it for you without a prompt
BUT you can document.write it in and avoid the prompt
BUT only if the script is in an external file...
So the key point here seems not to be with plug-ins (which obviously pre-date the patent) but plug-ins using EXTERNAL data...
Now this just doesn't make sense. The HTML standard has ALWAYS supported full urls being used in ALL tag that can get data ie. <img src="http://external.com/image.gif"> In fact the HTML standard was written specifically so that it doesn't care if data is local or not.
So in conclusion, why would Chewbacca live on Endor... this just does not make sense... I rest my case
That's just untrue and false.
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I hope you write code more efficiently than you write English.
if (!flag && (flag == false))
I see some room for optimization there
Like woodworking? Build your own picture frames.
This is a patent workaround, not a "feature". It's not meant to add value. They might as well make it say "Work around broken paten system? [YES]"
Correct!
And while you're at it, we need more successful terrorist attacks, so that people will be more aware of the dangers of terror! People will give more support to anti-terrorist actions after a few loved ones have died.
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