The Adobe patent is basically just an electronic extension of a card index,
to be found in every library, in every country all over the world, and I am
fairly sure that they were there first!
I have one on my desk now, I can take cards out, move them around, put them
back again. About the only thing I cant do is... oh.... hold on a sec while
I test this.... would you look at that, I can stack them in to new custom
piles as well!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 6:16 PM
Subject: RE: Adobe sues Macromedia????
> Exactly...
>
> It is such a lame patent adobe is trying to win with.
> specifically they are referring to the way their tabs
> work in photoshop if anyone is interested in seeing how many
> programs you can find that breach the patent.
>
> Okay you have two dialogs one is the color dialog
> and maybe the other is the history dialog each has
> a few tabs. You can drag that particular 'tab'
> over to another dialog and that tab is now
> on that dialog.
>
> I just did that with CF Studio and I *know* I have
> done that in Visual Studio.
>
> Point is.. its lame and ive seen the *exact* thing nearly
> in stuff that I know was around before Photoshop
> had it, so I really hope Macromedia does not have
> a hard time convincing the judge that there is
> plenty of prior art and existing art...
>
> From what I understand however, patents are not like
> trademarks where you have to defend them religiously
> you can just pick and choose when you defend your
> patent. I am not super clear on this one so
> dont take my advice :) This is just what I have
> come to understand.
>
> And to tie it into CF, CFstudio does almost the exact same thing
> except it lacks a 'container' type widget for the tabs. Ugh
> well anywhu...
>
>
> Jeremy Allen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: JustinMacCarthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 12:59 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Adobe sues Macromedia????
>
>
>
> > They are suing over "tearable tabs" where you can click on a tab
> > and drag it off the dialog it is on etc. Or you can
> drag it to
>
>
> CFSTUDIO too!!
>
>
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