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An Antic Disposition: Asking the right questions about Office 2010's OOXML support - 1 views

www.robweir.com/...ht-questions-about-office.html

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    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 17 Nov 09
       
      ... and we can expect similar censure for people claiming to support "ODF"?
  • Remember, the conformance language of OOXML is so loose that even a shell statement of "cat foo.docx > /dev/null" would qualify as a conformant application.
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 17 Nov 09
       
      Think you're confusing ODF and OOXML here Rob; hint - look at OOXML "application descriptions"
  • ...6 more annotations...
  • But that is not what WG4 was recently told in Seattle, where they were told that Office would not write out Strict documents until Office 16
  • In other words, will Office 2010 be "strictly conformant" with the ISO/IEC 29500:2008 standards?
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 17 Nov 09
       
      interesting made up concept, this "strictly conformant", for a standard which contains an extensibility mechanism ...
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 17 Nov 09
       
      err, news to me ... and I was at the meeting.
  • To do otherwise is to essentially specify a require for the use of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office alone.
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 17 Nov 09
       
      or any of those other applications which support that format (including some from IBM even) ...
Alex Brown

What are the decision criteria for DCORs in the JTC1 Directives? (Norbert Bollow's Comm... - 0 views

adaptux.com/...jtc1-directives-dcor

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    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 15 Nov 09
       
      Don't think so, Norbert - the DCOR has passed ...
Alex Brown

Blogger: An Antic Disposition - Post a Comment - 0 views

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    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 28 Oct 09
       
      "practical purposes", "reference implementation" - guys, why not just cut the crap and state you want to use OpenOffice (or MS Office) or whatever? Could it be that's ... not allowed?
Alex Brown

[office] OpenDocument TC coordination call minutes 2009-10-19 - 2 views

lists.oasis-open.org/...msg00335.html

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    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 21 Oct 09
       
      The strange lack of fanfare about this is deafening.
Alex Brown

An Antic Disposition: Protocols, Formats and the Limits of Disclosure - 2 views

www.robweir.com/...ols-formats-and-limits-of.html

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  • it strips out ODF spreadsheet formulas
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 13 Oct 09
       
      Telling ellision. I think Rob means "OpenOffice.org spreadsheet formulas" ...
  • interoperability is achieved by converging on a common interpretation of the format
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 13 Oct 09
       
      Or, rather more effectively, by drafting the standard competently enough that the need for "intepretation" is, in practice, eliminated ...
Alex Brown

An Antic Disposition: The Final OOXML Update: Part I - 0 views

www.robweir.com/...final-ooxml-update-part-i.html

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  • In any case, my current estimate is for us to send ODF 1.2 out for public review later this year and then to have a vote to approve it as an OASIS Standard in Q1 2010.
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 03 Oct 09
       
      What are the odds?!
Alex Brown

OOXML leap-year bug unfix (Norbert Bollow's Comments on Standards) - 0 views

adaptux.com/...ooxml-wg4-leap-year-bug-unfix

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  • I have been shocked to find that they're actually proposing to re-introduce the leap-year bug
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 13 Aug 09
       
      And I'm shocked to see a member of the Swiss NB, who has contributed ZERO effort to WG 4 huge efforts in this area, poop out such an ignorant piece of rubbish as this blog article
Alex Brown

Lotus Symphony gets some OOXML support : News : Software - ZDNet Asia - 0 views

www.zdnetasia.com/...0,39044164,62055288,00.htm

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  • Symphony 1.3, released last week, now enables imports of documents using Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format. However, the free-of-charge office suite does not yet let users save documents in OOXML.
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 03 Jul 09
       
      shhhhh
Alex Brown

Is There Life After Office? | BNET Technology Blog | BNET - 0 views

industry.bnet.com/...is-there-life-after-office

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  • Kafkaesque joke exemplifying vendor ambition, inexperience and stupidity
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 02 Jul 09
       
      Sounds familiar
Alex Brown

Where is there an end of it? | No one supports ISO ODF today? - 0 views

www.adjb.net/...ne-supports-ISO-ODF-today.aspx

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  • I changed the post to more precisely reflect the facts
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 10 Jun 09
       
      I think the word Americans use in circumstances like this is "busted".
Alex Brown

Microsoft and OpenDocument Format - At Last Some Compatibility? - News - eWeekEurope.co.uk - 0 views

www.eweekeurope.co.uk/...-last-some-compatibility--1082

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  • It might have been helpful if Microsoft had targeted instead ODF 1.2,
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 09 Jun 09
       
      Sigh; people don't seem to get that 1.2 doesn't exist ...
Alex Brown

Oracle's Ellison gambles with OpenOffice's future * The Register - 0 views

www.theregister.co.uk/...ellison_javafx_commitment

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  • "We encourage the OpenOffice group to quickly build their version of a spread sheet or a word app using JavaFX," Ellison said.
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 04 Jun 09
       
      errr, what? And is OO.o's future now under Larry's direct command?!
Alex Brown

Is ODF designed to be not implementable without source code? - Wouter - 0 views

blogs.code-counsel.net/...Post.aspx

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  • How come I am the one to notice how deficient ODF really is?
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 02 Jun 09
       
      "But mummy, he's not *wearing* any clothes ..."
Alex Brown

The Phantom Proposals - 0 views

lists.oasis-open.org/...msg00098.html

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  • I want to make sure that the record is crystal clear in this regard, since statements are being made, and actions attributed to members of this TC, which are false, misleading and reflect poorly on OASIS, this TC, our work and our decision making process. I don't think any of us want to see that happen.
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 20 May 09
       
      Oh?
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ODF Alliance Weblog: Microsoft's ODF Support Falls Short - 0 views

www.odfalliance.org/...osofts_odf_support_falls_short

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  • “Unfortunately, serious shortcomings have been identified in Microsoft’s support for ODF. Putting potentially millions of ODF files into circulation that are non-interoperable and incompatible with the ODF support provided by other vendors is a recipe for fragmentation.”
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 19 May 09
       
      I think Mr Marcich forgot to put inverted commas round his particular use of "ODF" to denote its special meaning ...
Alex Brown

OOXML is defective by design: Microsoft's latest aggression on ODF, codenamed "cast lead" - 0 views

ooxmlisdefectivebydesign.blogspot.com/...-latest-aggression-on-odf.html

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  • nazis
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 17 May 09
       
      "Nazis", "genocide", "white phosphorous" -- and all about a file format implementation ...
Alex Brown

Dr AJG's Commentary » Rob Weir…Going after Microsoft? - 0 views

ajg.math.concordia.ab.ca/?p=4

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  • It ahs been clear for a along time that the ODF standard primarily tries to codify various implementations and as such does not guarantee interoperability. Why blame Microsoft if their implementation does not further interoperability either? The writers of the ODF standard are to blame.
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 14 May 09
       
      well, quite
Alex Brown

Doug Mahugh : Tracked Changes - 0 views

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  • Much was made during the IS29500 standards process of the difference in the size of the ODF and Open XML specifications.  This is a good example of where that difference comes from: in this case, a concept glossed over in three vague sentences of the ODF spec gets 17 pages of documentation in the Open XML spec.
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 14 May 09
       
      This is the nub; OOXML may be overweight, but ODF is severely undernourished as a spec.
  • Alex Brown on 14 May 09
     
    Paul, that's right - though so far the faulty things in OOXML turn out to be more round the edges as opposed to ODF's central lapses. Still, it's early days in the examination of OOXML so I'm reserving making any firm call on the comparative merits of the specs until I have read a lot (a lot) more. Is there an area of OOXML you'd say was particularly underbaked? I'm quite interested in the fact that neither of these beasts specify scripting languages ...
Alex Brown

There is no end, but addition: Alex Brown's weblog - SC 34 Meetings, Jeju Island, Korea... - 0 views

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  • There seems to be a view abroad that to be a friend of ODF one cannot criticise it. This has done enormous damage, I believe, the result of which will become plain over the coming months as implemenations which are strictly conformant will demonstrate non-substitutablity. When this happens the blame will lie at the feet of the specification.
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 12 May 09
       
      Oh my prophetic soul!
Alex Brown

OpenDocument - Formula - 0 views

www.oasis-open.org/...tc_home.php

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  • OpenDocument already supports the inclusion of arbitrary formula languages for spreadsheet documents.
    • Alex Brown
      Alex Brown on 12 May 09
       
      and (for conformance fetishists) the important word here is "arbitrary".
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