AMamix·Dec 26, 2013Submission
Information Architects has patented usage of NSLinguisticTagger? (Writer Pro)
1 points · Open discussionmacguru
SyntaxCheck
Objective-C2013–2013
macguru / SyntaxCheck
SyntaxCheck
iOS demo showing NSLinguisticTagger in action.
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2 sourcesSince Apple provides the metadata tagging of the words via NSLinguisticTagger, then is this the web equivalent:
//dim non-anchor tags
$('*').not('a').addClass('dim');
//hightlight anchor tags
$('a').addClass('highlight');
If the browser provided the syntax metadata, then I don't see how this example with anchor tags is logically different. This appears to be obvious and trivial, where a patent requires non-obviousness and non-trivialness given the state of the art.
The linked demo at https://github.com/macguru/SyntaxCheck also seems to show the trivialness of this.
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