Re: DragNDrop to an unopened folder (without springs) and a nice accessibility side-effect

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 09:40, Nickolay V. Shmyrev wrote:
> >There is a nice solution in MacOSX where a folder opens if you hover
> >over it, however such a method may be patented.
> >
> 
> Is it may be patented or already patented? 

Yup, in the US at least:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6061061.WKU.&OS=PN/6061061&RS=PN/6061061

(I think their server's still down from their advertised April 1-2
outage though.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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