[odf-discuss] Native ODF support in browsers

[Arend van Beelen jr.]

On 10/23/06, Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Monday 23 October 2006 08:05, David Cartwright wrote:
> > At this stage the only expression of interest to assist pursue a
> > proposal for Firefox 3 has been from Lars Noodén. [Albeit I would be
> > delighted to hear that there is interest from the KDE developers to go
> > to the next stage beyond an ODF wrapper.]
>
> I'm still persisting in stating that ODF support is as native in konqueror
> as
> the html support. Technically that certainly is the case as both are
> supported in exactly the same manner.
> So I'm not sure what you mean here.


Just as an outsider's view on the discussion, but I think David was talking
about making ODF native to KHTML, rather than making it native to Konqueror.
This way ODF and HTML could exist in the same DOM, and it would become
possible to manipulate ODF with JavaScript.

Instead of (risking) talking past each other, can you provide a usecase
> where
> the current solution would not suffice?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_case


Personally, I would think it would be immensely "cool" if Firefox (or Gecko
actually) and KHTML could natively render ODF as they do HTML. It would
certainly open a lot of interesting opportunities. Whether something really
useful would come out of it is another question, yes :)

-- 
Arend van Beelen jr.
"If you want my address, it's number one at the end of the bar."
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