[odf-discuss] Native ODF support in browsers

[Inge Wallin]

On Monday 23 October 2006 12.04, Ian Lynch wrote:

> I think that is also a marketing case for synergy between ODF and
> OpenSource browsers. If a lot of people started installing eg Firefox to
> routinely view ODF files from government web sites, MS would have to
> build the capability into IE or risk losing a second browser battle.

A sweet scenario, but not a very likely one unfortunately.

> The Koffice solution is a good one but at present not available on
> Windows and requires someone to decide to use the whole KDE environment
> rather than just switch browsers so its a bigger hurdle to get over.

Well, I bet it's going to be available on Windows a lot earlier than we are 
going to see native ODF support in Firefox.  KDE4 with all its applications 
are going to Windows as qt4 is GPL:ed for windows too, and Kdelibs are going 
to work on windows too.

	-Inge

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