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PUBPAT Makes Progress Against JPEG Patent
The Data Compression News Blog writes "The US Patent Office has granted the Public Patent Foundation's request for a reexamination of the patent
which Forgent Networks is reportedly using to harass anyone that implements the
widely used JPEG format. They have already been challenged by many, but PUBPAT
had the first concrete case with 'prior art'.
In its Order granting PUBPAT's request, the Patent Office found that PUBPAT
raised 'a substantial new question of patentability' regarding every claim of
the the '672 Patent."
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Of course PRE-PUBE-PAT would be even farther from the legal world...
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With regards to IE, doesn't it completely ignore a lot of things? As a broke college kid, I've recently begun designing the campaign sites for the parents of the rich college kids I know (one of the good sides to the whole apron-strings deal is that Daddy comes and checks up on 'em every week or so), and, since this is my first forray into "professionalism", I've found out exactly what IE does wrong first-hand. It seems that you need not learn web standards (and it's probably a better idea that you don't) if you want your page to be usable by the 80+% of the world that uses IE, as one can expect to spend twice the time writing hacks to make Explorer work as it would take to lay out, mark up, and create the graphics for a page - all together. and this is compounded by the desire most seem to show for an entirely graphics-driven, dynamic page. With little content in terms of text, it's already hard enough to keep load times down, add to that a freakin' 205 gig (I always speak in hyperbole) javascript hack just so that IE doesn't start doing the "DIV dance" and misalligning all those pretty images, and we all but lose the possiblity of adhering to our morals and using the PNG, as none of these fat cats - and quite understandably - want to wait 3 seconds for a page to load when showing it off to a potential campaign contributor. The problem of pngs being mostly huge won't be resolved by IE figuring out how to do things right, but it may make them at least that much more attractive an option (for, say, a 1x1 repeating bg color to create a semi-transparent overlay, something else thats nearly impossible for IE because of lack of functional web standards support). Oh yea, if you live in Mi, vote Republican, whether you usually do or not; our Dems are some of the worst in the country, so you can't really go wrong, and when they win and begin rubbing more elbows with the upper crust, they tend to drive business my way, and you don't want a poor, starving, nerd who's just trying to pay for his education (it's what seperates us from the animals) to have to end up having to get a union job just to stay afloat on account of some idealism that has been proven to not apply in this state, do you?