Write

Browser News: Browsers & US Patent 5,838,906

October 24, 2003 in
Short URL: http://boyink.me/s/2157

http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/res_eolas.htm
This discusses implications of Eolas’ US Patent 5,838,906 on designers.

Looks to be a very good resource on all aspects of the Eolas v Microsoft suit around the use of plug in content.

I still question the following:

The impact on users will be:

The user must update their current browser.

Why?  I’ve seen nothing that leads me to believe that as a internet user I’m under any obligation to change as part of this whole deal.  If I know upgrading is going to deteriorate my web experience, and there’s no liability if I don’t upgrade, why in the world would I? 

Why would anyone?

Comments are closed, but you can read the 1 comment from someone else.

  1. kevin on October 24, 2003

    Good point. It seems like the only way to ‘force’ people to upgrade, is to make all current and older browsers illegal, which would basically make everyone that owns a computer into a criminal.

    I do like their suggestion that you can write the embedding tags through an external javascript file. If that actually were allowed, then soon, there won’t be any IMBED tags in anyone’s HTML anymore. It’ll all be in JS files.

Back to Article

Commenting is not available in this weblog entry.