Marco Fioretti wrote:
Even within single companies like Microsoft or Adobe, different
products use different APIs, just because they were created by
different people.
Bingo! You are comparing closed source apps with open source ones.
Different proprietary products *must* invent different APIs to
lock in users. FOSS ones, we are told, need no such tricks to
survive.
For once in my life, I will defend Microsoft.
I'm sorry Marco, but no. Using different APIs between Word and Front
Page does not at all help Microsoft achieve lock-in. And to some extent
makes it harder. But the simple fact is that they are different
applications.
It is rather impossible that an .odt file may contain a macro
functional at OOo, KOffice or whatever.
please let me know what you think of my reply to Daniel, where I
talk of a set of python functions etc....
I agree with Bernd (on another post) in that you seem to miss the
complexity of designing a new API and having it implemented accross
several office applications.
I honestly believe that if something like that happened, it would *kill*
OpenDocument simply because it would be next to impossible to support by
anyone. This wouldn't be the first time that an attempt at
standarization gets killed because a committee decides to add eccessive
complexity.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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