Microsoft Wins HTML App Patent 404
crataegus writes "'Microsoft on Tuesday won a patent for launching a certain kind of HTML application within Windows. The patent, "Method and apparatus for writing a Windows application in HTML" (Hypertext Markup Language), describes Microsoft's way of opening up HTML applications in a window free of navigation and other interface elements, known as "chrome," and browser security restrictions.' Why does this sound vaguely familiar?"
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Prior Art (Score:2, Funny)
Re:XHTML (Score:5, Funny)
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
hah. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It doesn't bother me! (Score:5, Funny)
I've spent 10+ years writing VB code
You're getting on an intellectual high horse sneering down at web monkeys from the vantage point of a VB programmer? Oh the irony.
I followed HTA for a while (Score:4, Funny)
Really fancy about pages.
Re:It doesn't bother me! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It doesn't bother me! (Score:2, Funny)
He has a secure, most likely well paying job in the IT sector and you're looking down on him because your high school C++ teacher says "VB iz l4me?" Oh, the irony.
Re:It doesn't bother me! (Score:5, Funny)
Languages are just portals for virii!
Was going to reply... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well.. (Score:1, Funny)
This is the solution to Microsoft's security probs (Score:2, Funny)
The patent, "Method and apparatus for writing a Windows application in bastardry" (a frequently-employed Microsoft method), describes Microsoft's way of opening up malicious applications in a window free of uninstall software and other interface elements, known as "options," and operating system security restrictions.
One example of a bastard application at work in Windows is the "MIDI" feature in DirectX.
On a page about bastard applications on its Developer Network site, Microsoft described the technique as a way to harness a virus's power while bypassing its network and interface-related restrictions.
Re:Over 10 years of VB? (Score:4, Funny)
Well, I've been at my current job 8 years, exclusively VB. Before that, it was a bit over a year doing mostly VB (along with a proprietary DOS-based language), and for a bit under a year before that I was hacking around in between C on the VAX. So maybe +/-10 years would have been more accurate?
But then, this is Slashdot, not a job interview [techinterviews.com]. On an application, of course, I'd put 15 years VB experience and 5 years using Windows 2000. Since that's what they'd require.
CERT Vulnerabity Notice: 2003 (Score:5, Funny)
This is a crappy idea. It got kicked to hell on the Full-Disclosure list about 2 Months ago...
virus in HTML (Score:3, Funny)
Sigh... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It doesn't bother me! (Score:5, Funny)
Especially given that line noise will autoformat and compile under VB.
Re:So they have a patent (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Over 10 years of VB? (Score:5, Funny)
Bar: How can you look at yourself in the mirror without vomiting?
Taping my paycheck stub above the soap dish helps enormously.
I Like The Bit That Says... (Score:2, Funny)
I think it's fair to say nobody would want to infringe on this patent anyway.
Re:It doesn't bother me! (Score:4, Funny)
You must not be a perl guy.
Embrace Now, Extinguish Later (Score:1, Funny)
Microsoft this month said it will liberalize its intellectual property licensing policy, letting other companies more easily use its patented technologies.
from my paranoid mind:
Microsoft announced that liberalization will continue at least until lock-in is achieved.
wait a min (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I Like The Bit That Says... (Score:2, Funny)
Yes, it's something like developing a medicine that promises "all the nausea and hair loss of kemotherapy" without any of the restrictions of the "cancer tratment".