- From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 22:35:54 -0400
- To: Simon Cox <S.Cox@solo.ned.dem.csiro.au>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
In message <3219BFE0.1065@ned.dem.csiro.au>, Simon Cox writes: > >(As an aside, I think that Sun's OpenLook interface was much >more consistent than Motif, and particularly liked the push-pins >that allowed you to keep a window or menu on screen if you wanted. >Shame it lost. Yes, the push-pins idiom is great. We used it in the OLIAS browser[1] that I used to work on back at HaL. I seem to remember some patent scare that delayed our use of it. Does anybody remember any claims that the push-pin idiom was patented? [1] http://www.baker.com/the-baker-reports/IW94-sp/report/press-releases/hal-olias.html HalSoft dissolved, and the danged thing has all but disappeared from the net!
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