DYNAMIC WEB PAGE BEHAVIOR

• US 20100011284A1
• Filed: 09/18/2009
• Published: 01/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Zotov, Alexander J., Gardner, Richard J., Chavez, Roderick, Fortini, Christian, Massy, David H., Ramakrishna, Anand
• Granted Patent: US 8,225,196 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

In some embodiments, code can be encapsulated in an external behavior component for affecting the behavior of an element inserted into an HTML document. A reference can be attached to the element in the document to associate the element with the external behavior component. A renderer can parse the element in the HTML document and access the external component to modify a behavior of a page image. For example, the properties or location of a displayed element associated with the external behavior component may be changed on an event, the external behavior component can control user data input, or the external behavior component can draw on the page image. Multiple documents can reuse external behavior components, and an element can be associated with multiple external behavior components. The associations between elements and external behavior components may be maintained in cascading style sheets, inline with the elements, and in various formats.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

accessing an external component to determine one or more extensible markup language (XML) namespaces, the external component being external to a markup language document and being configured to be used to modify a plurality of different markup language documents including the markup language document;

making one or more calls to one or more of the XML namespaces to access code included in the one or more XML namespaces; and

drawing information on a page of the markup language document based at least in part on the code included in the one or more XML namespaces.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the external component comprises a component object model (COM) object.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the markup language document includes a tag that references the external component.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the external component specifies one or more behaviors to be applied to the page of the markup language document.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the method is configured to be implemented by a web browser executing on a computing device.