Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-03-09 11:58 AM, James Knott wrote:
Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-03-07 2:50 AM, Lars Nooden wrote:
Despite earlier campaigns of disinformation, ODF and
OpenOffice.org are separate. OpenOffice.org is a program, with
development led by Sun/Oracle. ODF is a file format, with
development led by OASIS which has around 600 businesses,
government agencies, and universities taking part. Some two dozen
take an active lead in the development of OpenDocument.
Yes, but other applications ODF support is often *very* different
from Openoffice.org's... meaning, the documents do *not* look the
same.
As much as like the idea of ODF, it has not even come close to
achieving true cross-application compatibility yet.
Have you ever opened Word documents in other applications such as OOo
or Word Perfect? Ever notice it doesn't look the same? This is due
to differences in applications, not the file format. I seem to recall
that it's even an issue between different versions of Word.
True enough, but what does that have to do with anything?
You were implying that ODF was the cause, when in fact it's the
application. The file format simply tells the app what to do, not how
to do it. At least with ODF, the specs are fully published and
available to all. No reverse engineering is necessary to figure out how
to work with the documents. To follow your position, one could only use
MS Office & Word file formats, as something else might look different.
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