[odf-discuss] Native ODF support in browsers

[marbux]

On 10/23/06, Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org> wrote:
>
> 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.


Not necessarily, or at least the solution could be more intelligent than
MIME types and default environment file type associations. See my proposed
solution at <http://opendocumentfellowship.org/node/221>, especially section
3.5. A document author could at least specify in metadata appropriate apps
to open a document with. That still is not necessarily the user's selection,
but it is more likely to be right than the environment's default file type
association. And the metadata type proposed in section 3.4 lets the user set
what app to open the same document with the next time.

Best regards,

Marbux
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