[Gllug] MS patents tabbed browsing ...

Russell Howe rhowe at wiss.co.uk
Fri Sep 3 11:51:27 UTC 2004


On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:10:33PM +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> No they haven't.  They patented _using the tab key_ to navigate web
> pages.  

hypertext documents. Hypertext is more than just the web.

Still, patent 6,049,812, referenced by that one, could possibly be read
to be patenting tabbed browsing (ability for a browser to handle
multiple URLs at the same time)

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