Prior Art

• From: George Bray <listoid1@linkalarm.com>
• Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:52:42 +1000
• To: <public-web-plugins@w3.org>
• Message-Id: <p05200f1abb75bf174f98@[192.168.1.6]>

I haven't read the patent fully, but it would seem there's much prior 
art pre-dating these claims.

 From my own experience, Apple's HyperCard dates from 1987 and had 
XCMD/XFCN functionality that's exactly like today's browser plugins. 
It would be stretching definitions to describe HyperCard as an 
*online* system, but there were certainly similar online hypermedia 
systems of that era that had the claimed features. Intermedia from 
Brown university rings a bell.

The place to start looking is the archives of the ACM Hypertext SIG.

George

Received on Friday, 29 August 2003 22:54:30 UTC