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Microsoft Wins HTML App Patent

Posted by timothy on from the portfolio-whiplash dept.

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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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. Re:XHTML by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh "we" do, huh? First line of the source from your website:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

  3. Re:It doesn't bother me! by acidboy · · Score: 5, Funny
    So it's yet another way for Microsoft to let people call themselves "programmers", without actually having to write code. Big deal.

    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.

  4. I followed HTA for a while by DeltaSigma · · Score: 4, Funny

    Its biggest use?

    Really fancy about pages.

  5. Re:It doesn't bother me! by Carnildo · · Score: 5, Funny

    With ten years' experience, he's probably reached the point where he can actually force VB to do what he needs it to.

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  6. Re:It doesn't bother me! by mugnyte · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  7. Was going to reply... by iamanatom · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  8. CERT Vulnerabity Notice: 2003 by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Funny
    Patent a Turd?

    This is a crappy idea. It got kicked to hell on the Full-Disclosure list about 2 Months ago...

    VU#865940 - Microsoft Internet Explorer does not properly evaluate "application/hta" MIME type referenced by DATA attribute of OBJECT element IE will execute an HTML Application (HTA) referenced by the DATA attribute of an OBJECT element if the Content-Type header returned by the web server is set to "application/hta". An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running IE.

    (Other resources: eEye Digital Security Advisory AD20030820, MS03-032, MS02-040, CAN-2003-0532, CAN-2003-0838, CAN-2003-0809)

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  9. Sigh... by DroidBiker · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want to patent "a method for limiting the decay of society by kicking the crap out of idiots at the patent office"

  10. Re:It doesn't bother me! by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  11. Re:Over 10 years of VB? by RobertB-DC · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
  12. Re:It doesn't bother me! by larry+bagina · · Score: 4, Funny
    Especially given that line noise will autoformat and compile under VB.

    You must not be a perl guy.

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