Re: a what if...

Sounds like a perfect opportunity to open up a few thousand more security
holes in IE.

That aside, it could work.  Windows will have to start shipping with a
compiler installed by default... it's about time!

-Jake



Aral Balkan wrote:

>> Um, I'm pretty sure that "extensions" are the same as "plugins".
>> Code in a
>> different file, loaded at runtime, and run at the request of a hypermedia
>> document.  Covered by the patent, I think.
> 
> To highlight my previous post (emphasis added):
> 
>>> Hmm, not if the browser was built with an extendable/open framework. It
> [the browser]
>>> could then be *recompiled* with a new extension built using that
>> framework and
>>> abiding by the open API.
> 
> Would it really be covered by the patent if the extension was
> *compiled/patched* into the browser? i.e., the browser was recompiled to
> include the patch? e.g., sample workflow:
> 
> 1. I go on a site that uses Flash 14.0.
> 2. I am informed that my browser does not support Flash 14.0 and given a
> link to download the extension.
> 3. After downloading the extension, IE automatically *recompiles* its
> executable, including the Flash 14.0 patch/extension
> 4. IE restarts itself, now with the extension as part of its binary and
> displays the page
> 
> Aral
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Received on Friday, 5 September 2003 00:10:02 UTC