This shouldn't bother anyone. Whilst I was at Caldera (yes, them!) in 1997 Myself and a colleague sourced a browser to run on DOS, and we got the specification changed to allow it to allow HTML to define the application and user interface. This is before chrome-less, and was controlled in a manner similar to MS. Therefore there is substantial prior-art.
This invention is probably mine and Rogers as no-one else was doing it...
I wonder if we/Caldera should have patented it...
Note that this technology was shown publically at CeBIT in Europe and CDs were generated using it too as demos for DRDOS or OpenDOS so I'm sure Microsoft saw these and the website/publicity that covered these items - i.e. Public Domained invention. I'm sure Ransome Love will concur.
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This shouldn't bother anyone. Whilst I was at Caldera (yes, them!) in 1997 Myself and a colleague sourced a browser to run on DOS, and we got the specification changed to allow it to allow HTML to define the application and user interface. This is before chrome-less, and was controlled in a manner similar to MS. Therefore there is substantial prior-art.
This invention is probably mine and Rogers as no-one else was doing it...
I wonder if we/Caldera should have patented it...
Note that this technology was shown publically at CeBIT in Europe and CDs were generated using it too as demos for DRDOS or OpenDOS so I'm sure Microsoft saw these and the website/publicity that covered these items - i.e. Public Domained invention. I'm sure Ransome Love will concur.
Jon Williams