Hello Chris
On 25-Dec-00, you wrote:
>> Hello Michael
>>
>> On 25-Dec-00, you wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> well, ibrowse does it - but not perfect.
>>>
>>> do you know "netcaptor"? (www.netcaptor.com)
>>
>> I think David mentioned it a while back. Then we all mentioned
>> that they have patent pending on that technique (look at the
>> small print on the site ;)
>
> Must be trying to scare people off. Do you really think they could enforce
> a patent on a tabbed interface? How many places and how long has that been
> implemented by so many programs and OS's?
They CAN enforce such a patent, if it is specific enough. The implementation
of a "tabbed-view web browser interface" is perfectly patentable.
This is what people really misunderstand: that you CAN patent extremely
specific things, and that's what patents are for. Amazon are perfectly
alright with OneClick shopping, because the patent isn't for SHOPPING,
but the process of clicking on ONE button, and using pre-stored info on
servers and client machines to order a product with ZERO extra user
interaction.
The patent isn't for cookies, or database storage of user data, but the
way you club that together to make a feature. And BTW, Amazon got
the patent because they filed for it before internet shopping took off.
I can see why no-one else did: because they were either too stupid, or
didn't want to think about the security consequences..
The tabbed browser patent won't be for tabs, or for browsers, but for
tabs used to seperate browser windows.
If they DO get the patent (hey, maybe they will ;) then I dread to think
what they'd do to other tabbed-browser authors.
>> Besides, you watch how it'd start some kind of browser war! I'd
>> rather not have a load of idiots fighting over who had what
>> feature first.. it's bad enough with every other product we have
>> to use..
>
> I thought we had gotten over that. If someone hasn't I'll tell them to
> shuddap and use what works for THEM. Featurefirst claims get dumped to NIL:
> Who cares about that if both packages CURRENTLY have the feature? That's
> just marketing BS, and if the users are spouting it, they probably need to
> get a life. :)
Hee hee, agreed ;)
Thanks
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