[odf-discuss] Native ODF support in browsers

[Alex Hudson]

Martin Ellis wrote:
> How is embedding a KHTML part in konqueror any more 'native'
> than embedding any other kpart in konqueror?  

Where did I claim that it was more native?

> I also don't understand what the "little world" a plugin lives in.

In plugin architectures, each plugin is a piece of software which
conforms to a specific API. Aside from that API, you can consider the
software a "black box", of which you know no details. This what I was
referring to as it's own little world.

Compare this to, for example, SVG support. Where SVG support is
available, it is either native or plug-in. Where SVG support is provided
by a plug-in, the browser is able to display an SVG image but not able
to do anything with it beyond the limitations of the plug-in API. For
example, modifying the DOM of the image using standard Javascript. Where
SVG support is native, you can do that within the browser itself.

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