[Mono-list] HTML or XAML?

[Sijmen Mulder]

Yup, they just got themselves a patent on that type of virus :P

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Sijmen Mulder

>From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@blackperl.com>
>Reply-To: rjray@blackperl.com
>To: mono-list@lists.ximian.com
>Subject: Re: [Mono-list] HTML or XAML?
>Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 13:32:04 -0800
>
>>   I was just reading this article at ZDNet called "Microsoft patents 
>>'HTML
>>applications'", the title says it all, really.
>
>I particularly enjoyed reading this paragraph:
>
>According the application, the patent (no. 6,662,341) covers writing a 
>standard HTML file that runs in its own window outside of the browser. This 
>means, according to the filing, that the author of an HTML application file 
>won't face the security constraints imposed by a browser. This relaxed 
>security allows an HTML author to do things such as: read from a user's 
>local computer; write to a user's local computer and perform scripting of 
>frames between domains.
>
>...because, after all, the MS platform is renowned for its security.
>
>Randy
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