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1. Comment - Microsoft Refrains from Changing IE for Eolas Patent

   (Feb 3, 2004 - 9:26 AM)

   mynameisdougb you have completely missed the point on this one. It has nothing to do with Comet Cursor etc.. It has everything to do with your browsing experience.
   If MS lose their update to IE will prevent external technologies from being run directly from the code in the web page.
   Open this page in a new browser window: www.timberlink.co.uk/viewer.htm . - a simple gallery page. Not too technical, but, as it loaded it ran five JavaScript instructions; one to stop the page loading in another site's frame, the gallery, the scrolling task bar message, the menu and a tracker. The IE update will cause a warning box to appear as each ellement tries to load and you will have to "Ok" each one for the page to load. If a simple page has five elements embeded in the code imagine what some more complex pages will have.
   Micrsoft are not suing the university. Eolas Systems (a one man corporation) and the university claim to hold the patent for embeded technologies. They are suing Microsoft! Fortunately, other organisations have come to Microsofts defense with evidence the the technology was in use prior to the issue of the patent. The US Patent Office have agreed to look again at the patent with a view to invalidating it if they agree with the evidence. If MS lose, the way you browse the Net will change dramatically until site designers can rewrite their code - a massive task. And don't think you can just change browser. If they get MS, Mozilla and the rest will be next on the list.