Why Browsers Should Be Able to Display OpenDocument

Posted by dcparris on Nov 16, 2005 3:53 PM EDT
OS News; By Christian Paratschek
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OpenDocument got a lot of publicity lately. StarOffice 8 and OpenOffice.org 2.0 finally arrived, and all the other makers of office suites (with the notable exception of Microsoft) have started implementing the new standard into their programs. Massachusetts recently decided to use OpenDocument as the standard file format, effectively locking out MS Office as soon as January 1st, 2007. Other countries are on their way to do the same. Also, OpenDocument recently got submitted to become an ISO standard.

[Ed: Hmmm... View OpenDocument XML in my browser without a special plug-in? I'll take it! - dcparris]

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