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Alan Waddington
30-08-2003, 00:55
Actually, this isn't good news...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32561.html

The patent appears to cover all interactive content delivered either by plug-ins or active-X. MS state that they intend to modify IE to avoid the patent, but that it will affect many web pages.

It could be bye bye to Flash & embedded media players. (my interpretation)

More at

http://www.w3.org/2003/08/patent
http://www.eolas.net/news.html

Alan

Lord Nikon
30-08-2003, 12:03
I think its more a case of bye bye to auto deployment of embedded players.... if you want it then you go to the macromedia site and download it

Tricky
30-08-2003, 12:31
Originally posted by Lord Nikon
I think its more a case of bye bye to auto deployment of embedded players.... if you want it then you go to the macromedia site and download it

Not a bad thing unless you don't know what you are doing, and then the techie of the family gets loads of phone calls saying "I just did what it said on screen";)

MadGamer
05-09-2003, 21:25
Does this mean we could all lose the use of IE? :shrug:

Defiant
05-09-2003, 21:47
Yep it will make things allot worse in the end for the end user. We know what we need now but after all this it could end up being allot more