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It was based on the Viola toolkit, which is a tool for the development and support of visual interactive media applications, with a multimedia web browser being a possible application. Viola ran under the X Window System and could be used to build complex hypermedia applications that were beyond HTML 3.0 (the latest version of HTML at that time). AHEAD OF ITS TIME Viola was interesting because it was the first web browser to have the following features:
MICROSOFT V. EOLAS AND VIOLAWWW PRIOR ART Because of ViolaWWW, Microsoft received a retrial on February , 2005 , in the Microsoft v. Eolas case which could have cost software giant Microsoft $521m in damages. Eolas Technologies and the University Of California sued Microsoft for allegedly infringing patents with the Internet Explorer web browser. The case revolved around a patent held by Eolas and the University which claims to cover ways of making other software work seamlessly with web browsers. Microsoft had wanted to show the court ViolaWWW as Prior Art , since it was created in 1993 at the University of California, a year before the patent was filed. Microsoft had also suggested that Michael David Doyle , the founder of Eolas' and a former University of California researcher, had intentionally concealed his knowledge of ViolaWWW when filing the patent claim. EXTERNAL LINKS
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