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What's so open about Open XML? Part 1 | |
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| Time: 18:20 EST/23:20 GMT | News Source: Channel 9 | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner | ||
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Recently, I sat down with some of the minds behind Office's Open XML to talk about Open XML, the new Open XML SDK and related stuff. What's the big deal? What's so open about it? How does it represent a major shift in the way some Office applications construct and store data? What are the implications of Open XML on interoperability (do you even need Office to open an Open XML-based Office document)? Meet Brian Jones, Senior Program Manager, Art Leonard, Developer, Kevin Boske, Program Manager and Doug Mahugh (aka Mr. Open XML), Technical Evangelist. If you want to really understand Open XML and what it means to Office programmability, then these are great people to communicate with; on their blogs, of course. Here, you will get a taste of what Open XML unleashes for Office and non-Office developers alike. This is part one of a two part interview. | ||
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| #1 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 6/29/2007 12:22:51 PM |
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| #2 By 32132 (66.183.202.89) at 6/30/2007 10:09:52 PM |
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Latch, the author of your referenced hit piece is on the board of the Linux Foundation. He would do people a favor if he wrote about the flaws in ODF ... but that would be against his religion.
ODF is a failure as a document spec. And Sun owns it. "Humor" from Wikipedia: "The OpenDocument ISO specification does not contain a defined formula language. This means that ISO conforming files do not have to be compatible [21]. OASIS is working on creating a standard formula language for use in future versions of the format." "The OpenDocument ISO specification does not allow for tables in presentations. This is being worked on for a later version of the OpenDocument specification, but was not included in the ISO submission version" "Different applications using ODF as a standard document format have different methods of providing macro/scripting capabilities. There is no macro language specified in ODF. It is arguable whether there should be or not ." "The ODF standard is insufficiently detailed, requiring excessive application specific namespace extensions to record document features. These application specific namespace extensions are not necessarily interoperable between ODF compliant applications." "Java applets are described as native objects in the OpenDocument specification (§9.3.4). This means any full implementations will require a java virtual machine present from within the application." "The Sun OpenDocument Patent Statement [25] applies to a future version of ODF only if Sun participates in development of that version. If Sun does not participate, then the assurance not seek to enforce any of its enforceable U.S. or foreign patents against any implementation will not apply." ODF is a joke. This post was edited by NotParker on Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 22:10. |
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