- From: Scott Cadillac <scott@xmlx.ca>
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 14:47:54 -0700
- To: <public-web-plugins@w3.org>
Hi TheoDP, Looks like the Patent refers to HyperText Applications (HTA). Microsoft has had this since early MSIE 5.0 days - but I guess the Patent only just came through. HTAs cannot be executed over the web without invoking a security prompt in MSIE (this is by design), and the files are totally useless in any other browser. They're meant for executing from the desktop for either "Intranet" style web applications or for utilizing Windows Script Host code locally. They are "not" meant for general public consumption, and not likely an issue you have to code around. More information here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/hta/hta_n ode_entry.asp?frame=true Actually, the whole concept is pretty slick. I've built some HTA modules for an Intranet before. It's very much like using HTML and Script to create Desktop apps. You can customize the HTA window's title bar, chrome and icon - just like a Desktop app, and it never has to look like a browser window. Many components and configuration dialogs in the newer Windows Oss are just HTA files. ----- Of course, some a**holes have produced malicious applications with HTA, so never "OK" an HTA file you download from an unknown source. ----- Hope this helps. Cheers...... Scott Cadillac, XML-Extranet - http://xmlx.ca 403-281-6090 - scott@xmlx.ca Well-formed Development -- Extranet solutions using C# .NET, Witango, MSIE and XML > -----Original Message----- > From: public-web-plugins-request@w3.org > [mailto:public-web-plugins-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of TheoDP@aol.com > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 2:30 PM > To: public-web-plugins@w3.org > Subject: Microsoft Patents Writing Windows Apps Using HTML > > > Anyone care to comment on the patent [6,662,341] Microsoft > was awarded today for Writing Windows Applications Using HTML? > > It covers the authoring and execution of HTML that runs in > its own window outside of the browser. > > Seems like it would be tougher to code around than the Eolas patent! > > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HIT > OFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,662,3 > 41.WKU.&OS=PN/6,662,341&RS=PN/6,662,341 >
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