- From: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:46:15 +0200
- To: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>
- Cc: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>, Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>
Hi,
sorry, I hadn't seen that this was also posted publicly.
On Jun 29, 2009, at 20:23 , Arthur Barstow wrote:
>> The current Widgets-update Specification
>> http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-updates/
>> contains in 12.3 a description on how a widget could update
>> itself by a javascript calling the widget.update() method
>>
>> I wanted to know how important this feature is to the group
>> and how likely it will be that it will find widespread use.
>> The goal is to assess whether it is worthwhile to circumvent
>> the patent also for this self-update feature, which will
>> be a little bit harder than the circumvention for the rest
>> of the Specification.
My personal and non-legal opinion on this topic is that that feature
simply does not exist.
It is mentioned in an example which by definition is not normative
(section 1 Conformance further notes "Everything in this specification
is normative except for diagrams, examples, notes and sections marked
as informative" and the section itself starts with "This section is
informative.") It is not defined by Widget Updates and it is not
defined by Widget APIs and Events.
Furthermore my understanding is that this is the only part of the
specification that could possibly infringe Apple's patent, which means
that the specification in fact doesn't since that feature is not a
part of it (or any other).
We can more than very easily drop the example, and in fact the entire
section since it is entirely incorrect.
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Received on Monday, 29 June 2009 20:46:54 UTC