[odf-discuss] Native ODF support in browsers (was: HTML to ODF conversion toolkit)

[Lars D. Noodén]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Alex Hudson wrote:
> Plugins are fine, but they're their own little world, it's not the same
> as native display.

How about plug-in support as an intermediat step to native display?

Below is a summary of some points brought up earlier in the thread. 
What's missing or could be said better?

-Lars

Which opportunities would be opened up by having ODF viewing 
built into the default configuration of web browsers?

There has been demand for an increased range of formatting features a web
page can have. (X)HTML and CSS are an improvement but not good enough.

The Fellowship is doing nearly all of the work in creating the Firefox 
plugin. Firefox only has to ship with this plugin installed
by default.

People looking for an ODF viewer will be happy to use one that also 
happens to be a good browser.

FF is available even on Windows

At the rate Europe is switching to ODF, including ODF viewing could boost 
the use of the browser.  It's possible to imagine a scenario where the 
more of the public would install FF in order to read ODF files from 
government sites.

Lars Noodén
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