[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 10:37, Lars D. Noodén wrote:
> > 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.


Hoping to avoid more confusion here... The widgets Thomas talks about appear
to be the KParts I'm talking about. I think it's odd to say you suddenly
have PDF viewing capability without needing a separate plugin, because
KParts are a form of plugins themselves. It's just that KParts are so widely
used in KDE, a KDE PDF reader would probably have a KPart anyway, which
cannot be said for Netscape plugins. Thomas is correct to point out the
selection on which KPart will be used by Konqueror is determined by the
content's MIME type, not by its DTD.

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Arend van Beelen jr.
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