Personal Website of Yakov Shafranovich

« An inDECENT proposal         PRA Alone is Encumbered »

If you tab through webpages … Pay Up!

According to Slashdot story and the Register Microsoft has been granted a patent for the use of a keyboard TAB key to navigate through a web page. No word yet on the licensing fees for the makers and end-users of those “other” browsers like Mozilla, Opera, etc.

And of course Mosaic was able to that as well at least as early as March 13, 1995:

Version 2.0.0 Beta 1
Released March 13, 1995
Features and Enhancements
…
Forms Enhancements
o Tab from one form field to another

Tags: ipr, microsoft, mozilla, opera, patents —

Permalink | Trackback URL | This post has