[odf-discuss] Native ODF support in browsers

[Alfredo Beaumont]

Astelehena 23 Urria 2006 09:45(e)an, Arend van Beelen jr.(e)k idatzi zuen:
> 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.

Good description. Thanks for clearifying.

> 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 :)

This is the main question. Is not like 'let's implement ODF and see if 
something cool comes out of it'. You know, doing such a thing takes tons of 
work. Does it make sense ? IMHO it does not. Whether you like it or not, ODF 
is *not* a web technology, it's not standarised by W3C and it's not intended 
for web browsers to render it 'natively'. So they question is, why should we 
propose such a thing ? And I agree with Thomas here, we need an use case to 
justify such a proposal.
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