(12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 6,662,341 B1 Cooper Et Al
USOO666.2341B1 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 6,662,341 B1 Cooper et al. (45) Date of Patent: Dec. 9, 2003 (54) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WRITING 6,370,552 B1 * 4/2002 Bloomfield ................. 345/759 A WINDOWS APPLICATION IN HTML OTHER PUBLICATIONS (75) Inventors: Fly, P NR". We http://www.meadroid.com/docs/wpm/overview.htm, (US); Loren M. Konnielder, Bellevue, “MeadCo's WPM 5.0 Programming Manual,” available at WA (US); Roderick A. Chavez, least as early as Jun. 1999. Kirkland, WA (US) http://www.meadroid.com/docs/wpm/refs.htm, “Mead Co (73) Assignee: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA WPM 5.0 Programming Reference,” available at least as (US) early as Jun. 1999. (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this * cited bby examiner patent is extended or adjusted under 35 Primary Examiner Stephen S. Hong U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days. (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Christensen O'Connor Johnson Kindness PLLC (21)21 Ap1.Appl. No.: 09/315,09/315,858 (57) ABSTRACT (22) Filed: May 20, 1999 7 A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for (51) Int. Cl." ................................................ G06F 17/21 authoring and executing HTML application files is dis (52) U.S. Cl. ..................................... 715/513; 715/501.1 closed. An HTML application file is basically a standard (58) Field of Search .............................. 707/513,501.1; HTML file that runs in its own window outside of the 709/230, 310-311, 320, 328-329; 717/106, browser, and is thus not bound by the security restrictions of 110, 112, 114-119, 71.5/513,501.1 the browser.
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