With a patent threat looming over the Web's de facto standard browser, the Worldwide Web Consortium launched a strategy group to evaluate the implications for the Web's standard markup language.
As previously reported, the W3C conceived the patent advisory group to study the threat posed by the Eolas plug-in patent to the Web's core markup language, HTML and related W3C recommendations.
"We created this group with the idea of having our members come together first of all to look at how that patent will impact our specification, and look at what we can do about it," said Philipp Hoschka, the W3C's deputy director for Europe and head of the W3C Interaction Domain. "We need to get input from members and from the legal staffs of our members to analyze the intricacies there."
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