[odf-discuss] Native ODF support in browsers

[Thomas Zander]

On Monday 23 October 2006 10:37, Lars D. Noodén wrote:
> > Hope that clears things up :)
>
> Sounds good, but konqueror (v 3.5.2 with KDE on Ubuntu 6.06 PPC) when I
> try it sends ODF files to an external application regardless of the mouse
> button or modifier key.  Though I can choose between Kword and OOo Writer
> an option for simply viewing does not seem to be there.

Right click and 'preview in'. As clicking on a document tends to mean you want 
to edit it :)
Which is a great example of where demoting ODF to be read only on the web 
breaks down. Uses just may be more interrested in showing the ODF in a word 
processor for edit.  And there is no way the browser can know what the user 
wants to do with it.

> It sounds like there is potentially a different rendering engine there for
> each DTD, one for XHTML and one for ODF.  Is that correct?

No, there is a different widget that does its thing for each mime type.
Install a PDF reader and without any work you suddenly have a PDF viewing 
capability in konqueror. Whereas in Windows you need to separately have a 
plugin.

> What I am wondering about is the practicality of a generic XML rendering
> engine which can handle arbitrary DTDs, schemas.  There is a lot of not
> well-formed, invalid stuff calling itself HTML or XHTML, but I'm
> wondering about only the well-formed documents at this time.
I'm not aware of anyone successfully doing so. Must be the difference between 
theory and practice that got in the way :)

-- 
Thomas Zander
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