Re: [NTLK] Patents on Newton interface concepts

From: Jon Glass <jonglass_at_usa.net>
Date: Wed Oct 07 2009 - 12:51:46 EDT

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Chilton Webb <chilton@mac.com> wrote:
> Microsoft copied this for Internet Explorer, and it worked brilliantly
> (my opinion). If you only had a one button mouse, clicking and holding
> over something would pop open the context menu after awhile.

I thought that came from Netscape.... I've been doing it since I
started using browsers, and I did _not_ use Explorer first, and only
used it on my Mac for a short time before I moved to Cyberdog...

-- 
 -Jon Glass
Krakow, Poland
<jonglass@usa.net>
"I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals." --Jack Nicklaus
==================================================================== 
The NewtonTalk Mailing List - http://www.newtontalk.net/
The Official Newton FAQ     - http://www.splorp.com/newton/faq/
The Newton Glossary         - http://www.splorp.com/newton/glossary/
WikiWikiNewt                - http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/
====================================================================
Received on Wed Oct 7 12:52:22 2009

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Wed Oct 07 2009 - 14:30:00 EDT