[Gllug] MS patents tabbed browsing ...

[Mike Leigh]

There could be a case for "prior art" with the lynx browser here.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Tushar Joshi [mailto:tjoshi at lonix.org.uk]
Sent: 03 September 2004 12:19
To: Greater London Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Gllug] MS patents tabbed browsing ...



Erm, doesn't and hasn't lynx been doing that for years!?
Is that patent pending or approved?

Tushar

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:10:33PM +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 11:59, Richard Jones wrote:
> > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=6,785,865
> > 
> > Software patents.  Coming soon to a country near you.
> 
> No they haven't.  They patented _using the tab key_ to navigate web
> pages.  
> 
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