Great conference with very interesting talented people, content in an
incredible beautiful venue. It was a great pleasure to meet people in
real life.
I'm home again physically to a crisp autumn, despite the epic security
theatre featuring a cast of thousands there in Vantaa and new 'guards'
that can't or don't read boarding passes. My thoughts are still
elsewhere.
I'm mulling over a lot of material, in particular the final talk.
The presentation "Introducing ODF to mobile platforms" introduced some
very interesting new ways of managing ODF files which warranted far more
discussion than the prestigious position of closing lecture gave it:
http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/ooocon/2010/paper/view/263
Is there a way to get the slides up on the wiki and the ogg recording
for the talk? I kind of missed the whole Friday because I was so tired
and would like to take a fresh look at the presentation.
The new model described works with overlapping document fragments at the
client end rather than whole documents. This may even be another way of
looking at compound documents, but for now it means that the traditional
page of paper is no longer the highest level of granularity for
documents. Especially as we are working with documents that are
*thought* of as electronic for their entire life cycle. [1]
Perhaps there is a general awareness. Many comments during the other
sessions mentioned directly or alluded to leaving behind the current
concept of office suite as it exists today. That would be necessary if
the concept of page-of-paper as the basic container unit goes away.
/Lars
[1] During the 80s and 90s the concept of page became someone diffuse.
Manual pages (man) can be short or long but regardless of length
considered a single page. Web pages, obviously, with the vertical
scroll have even more variation in length yet are considered a single
page.
On Thurs or Friday dealing with a small sheaf of papers, I applied a
name to the sheaf and received a comment about the name usually applying
to a single page. These two things struck me then: to me the document
was one page because the ink on paper was either a document surrogate or
a display medium and not the actual document itself, which was of course
valid XHTML.
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