JADE (James' DSSSL Engine), an open source implementation of an SGML, then XML, stylesheet formatter, was Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by James Clark and released to the public domain. JADE used a markup for its stylesheets which was almost identical to the WSH example posted on Slashdot, with utterly trivial differences. Jade associated identifiers with its scripts, such that each could be addressed uniquely. Jade also provided a features by which markup of some other scripts and/or content could be included within a single file and the correct interpreter would be invoked for each.
This, by the way, is the subject of a three ISO standards (DSSSL, HyTime, and SGML) published years before Microsoft's claims. After reading the patent claims, I fail to see what Microsoft has invented.
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JADE (James' DSSSL Engine), an open source implementation of an SGML, then XML, stylesheet formatter, was Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by James Clark and released to the public domain. JADE used a markup for its stylesheets which was almost identical to the WSH example posted on Slashdot, with utterly trivial differences. Jade associated identifiers with its scripts, such that each could be addressed uniquely. Jade also provided a features by which markup of some other scripts and/or content could be included within a single file and the correct interpreter would be invoked for each. This, by the way, is the subject of a three ISO standards (DSSSL, HyTime, and SGML) published years before Microsoft's claims. After reading the patent claims, I fail to see what Microsoft has invented.
Naturally, it will Taste Like Chicken (TM).