All your tabs belongs to us

[Carbonadium4]

Not to be confused with tabbed browsing, this is the act of using the tab button to switch between hyperlinks. Took a genius to think that one up.
Last week Microsoft was granted an ancient patent claim covering the navigation of web pages by keyboard. According to US Patent 6,785,865 (Discoverability and navigation of hyperlinks via tabs - Cote et al), the practice of tabbing through hyperlinks on a web page now belongs to Microsoft. The claim was filed more than seven years ago, in March 1997.
"A user may press a tab key to discover and navigate to a first hyperlink that is part of a hypertext document. The first hyperlink is, in response, given focus and a focus shape is drawn around the text or graphics for the hot region of the hyperlink. If the user again presses the tab key, the next hyperlink is given focus and a focus shape (i.e., an outline that surrounds the next hyperlink) is drawn around the next hyperlink," we learn from the abstract.


Well, not all..

 

[mugs]

All your tab are belong to us

 

[Zim Hosein]

Don't forget this one:

Another interesting grant is number 6,784,354, with an application date of March 13, 2003: "Generating a music snippet." Yes, you read that right. Now dividing a music stream into portions is Microsoft's domain.

:Q

 

[notfred]

fvcking bulls!t. The patent office was not intended to be used by giant corporations to create monopolies.