[OT] browser plugin patents - warning!

[Dar Scott]

On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 05:55 PM, Alex Rice wrote:

> Here are their patents, including the Plugin one
> http://www.eolas.com/technology.html

It seems in the broadest claim a "browser" on a network takes an object 
specified by media to be at a certain place and displays it "within the 
display area" specified using an "external executable application" 
allowing the object to be interactive.

(It may be that this claim is ignored and only more specific claims 
apply.)

It seems to me that the way around this is to remove "external" or 
"executable application" from an implementation.  Just babbling.

Just as long as a Revolution stack is a document and not an "external 
executable application".

Dar Scott