This pile of junk was filed on April 29, 1999.

Prior art can be found, documented, in "The Web Architect's Handbook", author Charles Stross, published Addison-Wesley, 1996 (ISBN 0-582-87735-X) on page 201 (heading: "Avoiding links entirely: an embedded web browser").

(If the victims of this extortion want me to show up in court as a witness, I'd be happy to discuss my air fare and dates :)

If example code in a book with an ISBN on deposit at the Library of Congress three years before they filed this patent isn't good enough, what is?