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Jeff Mottle · October 9th, 2003

How lame is this that one person can screw up the seamless delivery of half of of the world's websites.

http://www.dmxzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=5524

http://www.dmxzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=5703

mbr · October 9th, 2003

That's really sad. I did hear about that a few weeks ago, but I thought it was limited.

I've get a question, does that mean sites that 'automatically' load content into a frame, or iframe, would have to have that ridiculous pop up?
Crazy - that will utterly destroy so much progress.

For once, MS will have a crowd supporting their battle.

Jeff Mottle · October 9th, 2003

From what I understand it only affects content that uses <blockquote>code:<hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;"><object></pre>[/quote]and <blockquote>code:<hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;"><embed> </pre>[/quote]tags that have <param> blocks. This not only affects Flash it affects may third party plugins like many VR apps, sound apps, image viewers...the list goes on.

Ernest Burden · October 9th, 2003

In a commercial sporting candies from England, John Cleese quipped of Americans "oh, and let's not forget you pinched our language. If we hadn't forgotten to copyright that you would be paying us the most fantastic royalties right now".

The vaguely-worded computer-era patent lottery--sometimes it pays off big.

Jeff Mottle · October 9th, 2003

I think I'm going to patent the finger. Insurance companies give you like $10K per finger and more for the thumb so I figure I ought to be able to sue every new mother for at least $100K per kid. If my idea works I'll go for the toes.

tcorbett · October 10th, 2003

Thank god I got out of the streaming video production business just in time.

Now someone else has to update the thousands of embedded RealPlayer files, or field the complaint calls for that goofy pop-up dialog.

Fun patent fact: did you know that if you use a laser pointer to harass your cat, you're infringing on someone's patent?

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Jeff Mottle President/Founder Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Age: 33 Posts: 5,078 Name: Jeff Mottle	How lame is this that one person can screw up the seamless delivery of half of of the world's websites. http://www.dmxzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=5524 http://www.dmxzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=5703 __________________ Jeff Mottle CGarchitect.com

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Jeff Mottle President/Founder Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Age: 33 Posts: 5,078 Name: Jeff Mottle	From what I understand it only affects content that uses <blockquote>code:<hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;"><object></pre>[/quote]and <blockquote>code:<hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;"><embed> </pre>[/quote]tags that have <param> blocks. This not only affects Flash it affects may third party plugins like many VR apps, sound apps, image viewers...the list goes on. __________________ Jeff Mottle CGarchitect.com

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Ernest Burden Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Ossining, NY USA Posts: 4,999 Name: Ernest Burden III	In a commercial sporting candies from England, John Cleese quipped of Americans "oh, and let's not forget you pinched our language. If we hadn't forgotten to copyright that you would be paying us the most fantastic royalties right now". The vaguely-worded computer-era patent lottery--sometimes it pays off big. __________________ Ernest Burden III AcmeDigital architectural rendering

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Jeff Mottle President/Founder Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Age: 33 Posts: 5,078 Name: Jeff Mottle	I think I'm going to patent the finger. Insurance companies give you like $10K per finger and more for the thumb so I figure I ought to be able to sue every new mother for at least $100K per kid. If my idea works I'll go for the toes. __________________ Jeff Mottle CGarchitect.com

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mbr Veteran Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Los Angeles and Connecticut....and Denver Posts: 1,266 Name: Markus Byron	That's really sad. I did hear about that a few weeks ago, but I thought it was limited. I've get a question, does that mean sites that 'automatically' load content into a frame, or iframe, would have to have that ridiculous pop up? Crazy - that will utterly destroy so much progress. For once, MS will have a crowd supporting their battle.

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tcorbett Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Age: 32 Posts: 142 Name: Tom Corbett	Thank god I got out of the streaming video production business just in time. Now someone else has to update the thousands of embedded RealPlayer files, or field the complaint calls for that goofy pop-up dialog. Fun patent fact: did you know that if you use a laser pointer to harass your cat, you're infringing on someone's patent?

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