[odf-discuss] Alex Hudson selected to develop HTML to ODF conversion toolkit

[Thomas Zander]

On Friday 20 October 2006 09:42, Alex Hudson wrote:
> > Martin's graphic of Konqueror rendering an ODT file also captures the
> > direction. [Albeit I am not clear if it is a current capability or an
> > artist's impression. Would be interesting to hear more.]
>
> Apologies if I'm mistaken here, but wasn't that just a screenshot of
> Konqueror with an embedded KOffice?

The screenshot indeed shows this technology. Something that Konqueror has had 
for a couple of years already.
I'm not sure why Alex is putting the 'just' in there as the effect we are 
looking for is shown exactly there.  A (read only) rendering of the ODF file.

Any other strategy would involve reinventing the wheel by writing the ODF 
parsing and rendering again.
The point we should take home here (and in other instances) is that some 
integration the fellowship would really like to see on platforms like Windows 
have already been accomplished in KDE. Call it a proof-of-concept, call it 
what you want.  The reality is that solving these issues the Windows way 
(writing the parsing/rendering again for a different application) doesn't 
scale very well.

-- 
Thomas Zander
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