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Microsoft Wins HTML App Patent
crataegus writes "'Microsoft on Tuesday won a patent for launching a certain kind of HTML application within Windows. The patent, "Method and apparatus for writing a Windows application in HTML" (Hypertext Markup Language), describes Microsoft's way of opening up HTML applications in a window free of navigation and other interface elements, known as "chrome," and browser security restrictions.' Why does this sound vaguely familiar?"
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Every fscking porn popup ever, c.1995 onwards.
The Slashdot Paradox: "100% Overrated"
Oh "we" do, huh? First line of the source from your website:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
As long as the patent has "Windows" in it, I'm unfazed. That whole platform is a (slooowly) sinking ship. They're just repeatedly carving their name on the hull.
I've spent 10+ years writing VB code
You're getting on an intellectual high horse sneering down at web monkeys from the vantage point of a VB programmer? Oh the irony.
Its biggest use?
Really fancy about pages.
With ten years' experience, he's probably reached the point where he can actually force VB to do what he needs it to.
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
You're getting on an intellectual high horse sneering down at web monkeys from the vantage point of a VB programmer? Oh the irony.
He has a secure, most likely well paying job in the IT sector and you're looking down on him because your high school C++ teacher says "VB iz l4me?" Oh, the irony.
You use languages? Sissy! In MY DAY, we'd plug wires into a wall of vaccuum tubes. Every few hours, we'd shutdown and replace the burnouts. and don't even ASK ME about the BUGS.
Languages are just portals for virii!
I was going to type a reply but M$ would probably patent 'ASCII data entry by means of an alpha-numeric input device' before I could hit Post. Darn.
"This is crazy, you realise we could all go to jail for this?" - my manager, somewhere I used to work.
naked twister
Microsoft on Tuesday won a patent for launching a certain kind of bastard application within Windows.
The patent, "Method and apparatus for writing a Windows application in bastardry" (a frequently-employed Microsoft method), describes Microsoft's way of opening up malicious applications in a window free of uninstall software and other interface elements, known as "options," and operating system security restrictions.
One example of a bastard application at work in Windows is the "MIDI" feature in DirectX.
On a page about bastard applications on its Developer Network site, Microsoft described the technique as a way to harness a virus's power while bypassing its network and interface-related restrictions.
Or maybe it just *feels* like ten years..
:)
Well, I've been at my current job 8 years, exclusively VB. Before that, it was a bit over a year doing mostly VB (along with a proprietary DOS-based language), and for a bit under a year before that I was hacking around in between C on the VAX. So maybe +/-10 years would have been more accurate?
But then, this is Slashdot, not a job interview. On an application, of course, I'd put 15 years VB experience and 5 years using Windows 2000. Since that's what they'd require.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
This is a crappy idea. It got kicked to hell on the Full-Disclosure list about 2 Months ago...
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
I am not sure if those virus in OE could be classified as HTML. But if yes, will those virus writers be sued as "patent infringment"?
There is a spark in every single flame bait point.
I want to patent "a method for limiting the decay of society by kicking the crap out of idiots at the patent office"
I've spent 10+ years writing VB code, and I'm sure everyone will agree that there's a difference -- even in "high level" languages -- between throwing together something that will compile vs. designing a tool that does what your client needs done.
Especially given that line noise will autoformat and compile under VB.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
Can you hold auto manufacturers responsible for drunk driving?
Foo: Well, I've been at my current job 8 years, exclusively VB.
Bar: How can you look at yourself in the mirror without vomiting?
Taping my paycheck stub above the soap dish helps enormously.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
I think it's fair to say nobody would want to infringe on this patent anyway.
You must not be a perl guy.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
from the article:
Microsoft this month said it will liberalize its intellectual property licensing policy, letting other companies more easily use its patented technologies.
from my paranoid mind:
Microsoft announced that liberalization will continue at least until lock-in is achieved.
The way that reads, it sounds like a webpage that writes and executes a windows app on a users pc. Microsoft has patented browser exploits? It's hard to dispute this one, they certainly have all the prior art on their side...