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Microsoft patents 'HTML applications' | |
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| Time: 13:55 EST/18:55 GMT | News Source: ZDNet UK | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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Microsoft was awarded on Tuesday a patent by the US Patents and Trademarks Office on writing Windows applications in HTML, so making it possible to bypass the built-in security that browsers offer. 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. | ||
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| #1 By 2960 (156.80.64.137) at 12/10/2003 2:06:57 PM |
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Um, is this really a smart thing to do?
I mean, the ability to 'wright outside of the box' is what has us in this whole Virus/Trojan mess to begin with. Unless I'm not understanding something here... Is this a patent award so they can _stop_ someone from bypassing the security? Either way, this seems to be yet another patent award where someone has obviously already done it before. Again, unless I don't understand something. TL |
| #2 By 61 (65.32.171.138) at 12/10/2003 3:21:41 PM |
| So... they patented ActiveX? |
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