some of the so-called ‘plug-ins’ were revealed to provide better support for ODF than the recently released Microsoft Office 2007 SP2
plug-ins for Microsoft Office written by third parties were revealed to provide better support for ODF than the recently released Microsoft Office 2007 SP2
the balancing act that Office-ODF interoperability requires
absence of non-disclosure agreements
I saw no down side
all ODF TC members who desired to come had a place
interaction with the ODF community
balancing of different interests: standards groups, corporations, institutions, government agencies, regulatory bodies, and general users
five guiding principles that govern ODF support in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
priorities that apply in making trade-offs
a serious, open conversation is beginning
Balancing of competing considerations is not trivial
current OpenOffice.org implementations fail to check whether a formula conforms to its own extension
the central feature of typical document processing software is the internal, in-memory representation of the software's document model
features may be lost on output
features may be lost on input
rely on features that succeed with the internal representation
degraded or lost entirely in the chosen external representation
losing some of them when saving
Florian Reuter argued an interesting gracefully-failing extension technique that, on reflection, I believe could avoid breaking changes against earlier ODF specifications of namespaces, their elements and their attributes too
There are two product lines under development; the da Vinci class of ODF plugins for Microsoft Office (for versions 97, 2000 and 2003), and, the ODF InfoSet Engine and APi. The former is for users to create and edit ODF files in their existing Microsoft Office installations and the latter is for application developers needing a lightweight but extremely powerful ODF-centric universal conversion and layout engine.
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