Eolas Technologies Incorporated v. Adobe Systems Incorporated et al

Filing 1028

Staples, Inc.'s Third Amended Answer, Defenses and Counterclaims ANSWER to 891 Amended Complaint,, COUNTERCLAIM against All Plaintiffs by Staples, Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit Third Amended Answer (pages 16-17), # 2 Exhibit Third Amended Answer (pages 18 - 27), # 3 Exhibit Third Amended Answer (pages 28 - 33), # 4 Exhibit Third Amended Answer (pages 34 - 48), # 5 Exhibit Third Amended Answer (pages 49 - 69))(Richardson, Michael)

intelligence of the scripts in the application. Given more work, this chess board
application can front-end a chess server, connected to it using the socket facility
in viola.

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This is a demo a viola "application" (the chess board) being reùieved uia HTTP,
instantiated, and plugged into this HTML document,

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What follows is a screendump of a demo of an embedded viola
application that lets readers of this HTML page communicate by
typing or drawing. Like the chess board application above, this
chat application can stand-alone (and have nothing to do with the
World Wide Web), or be embedded into a HTML document.

By the way, to make this possible, a multi-threaded/persistent
server was written to act as a message relay (and to handle HTTP
as well).

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This next mini application front-ends a graphing process (on the
same machine as the viola process). An important thing to note is
that, like all the other document-embeddable mini applications
shown, no special modification to the viola engine is required for
ViolaWWW to support them. All the bindings are done via the
viola language, provided that the necessary primitives are available
in the interpreter, ofcourse.
Put it another way, because of the scripting capability, the
ViolaWWW browser has become very flexible, and can take on
many new features dynamically. C-code patches and recompilation of the browser can frequently be avoided.

This attribute can be very important for several reasons. It keeps
the size of the core software small, yet can grow dynamically as
less frequently used features are occasionally used, or as new
accessories/components are added.

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