[odf-discuss] Native ODF support in browsers

[Daniel Carrera]

On Tue, 2006-24-10 at 08:45 +0200, Pete Harlow wrote:
> I suppose at the end of the day, as long as speed and footprint remain
> acceptable, the technology is not important., but the functionality
> is. Certain things - pagination springs to mind - will never be easy
> going through an HTML rendering agent. 

Indeed. As long as it renders the ODF file well, who cares how it does
it?

For Firefox I see two steps:
1. Just grab our XSLT and display the HTML. This is a quick and easy
solution that gives you a passable viewer.

2. Make Gecko treat the HTML so produced a tad different. In particular,
to add pagination. You can express page sizes with CSS. Gecko could use
that to fix the page sizes and do proper pagination.

After #2 you'd have a pretty good viewer at a fraction of the cost of
making a whole new rendering engine.

Cheers,
Daniel.
-- 
"I AM in shape. Round IS a shape."
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