On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:01:40 -0000, Tim Smith wrote:
> Firefox should support it for the same reason IE supported a bunch of
> Netscape junk--it is what is out there. The way much of the HTML standard
> developed was by companies like Netscape and Microsoft proposing things, and
> implementing those things in their browsers. After the standards bodies see
> that these things work in practice and are useful, they are added to the
> standard.
Indeed. The most recent example I can think of is the Canvas tag, which
was totally proprietary to Apple's Safari, yet that didn't stop KDE from
adding it to Konqueror and Mozilla from adding it to Firefox and Opera from
adding it there. Oh, it's NOW been added to the WhatWG "HTML 5" proposed
standard, but while this was developing it wasn't.
Oh, but that's different, those weren't Microsoft.
>> My gripe was with the former paragraph, but I will only add that Microsoft
>> has an history of patenting technology and method that it nicked from
>> others. Have a look:
>>
>> http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/25/1346201.shtml
>>
>> Microsoft Seeks Patent On Virtual Desktop Pager
>
> I wasn't able to understand the patent application on first reading. Could
> you explain just what it is they've nicked from others there? (I assume you
> aren't just looking at the title and judging from that...)
Nope, he can't, because he's just parroting what he's read elsewhere.
That's all Roy's capable of is repeating what others say. He fails so
miserably at saying his own words that they almost never match what he's
commenting on.
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