Comments on: Verdict: Microsoft’s OOXML is Not a Standard

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:47:20 +0000

Note: I’ve just checked the IPs of “Sideshow-Bob” and “Sidehow-Bob” — an identity that showed up shortly after eet’s last morph. It’s definitely him. Changing E-mail addresses twice with the very same IPs (eet’s IPs). You’re becoming too predictable, eet.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:57:50 +0000

Yes, I know, and it has importers which are not new. It’s all predictable (been known for many months).

By: Sideshow-Bob

Sideshow-Bob — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:52:54 +0000

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080507-first-look-openoffice-org-3-0-beta-a-big-step-forward.html

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By: Sideshow-Bob

Sideshow-Bob — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:40:41 +0000

Because it will! To be specific the beta already does. Note: comment has been flagged for arriving from a possible incarnation of known (eet), pseudonymous, forever-nymshifting, abusive Internet troll that posts from open proxies and relays around the world.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:15:18 +0000

Alex,

Why do you insist that OOo does OOXML? See http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/04/will-openofficeorg-support-ooxml.html

By: Xanadu

Xanadu — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:42:49 +0000

OOo has gained native support for OOXML (these are _not_ the XSLT filters, but completely new code).

still filters.

By: Xanadu

Xanadu — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:40:22 +0000

Beta”

Retail OOo allows me to save in ODF just fine.

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It is amazing MSOOXML has just failed the definition of standard in every single possible way, right now it is not even a document…

By: AlexH

AlexH — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:15:56 +0000

Having looked at the software, there is actually an ODF version selector – it’s just hidden away in the options

So I take that comment back partly, you can at least force OOo to save in the standard format. It just doesn’t do it by default, they don’t advertise it and it’s not as easy to get to. Hrm.

By: AlexH

AlexH — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:01:00 +0000

Further OOXML news from Sun / the OOo community today:

http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/featurelistbeta.html

OOo has gained native support for OOXML (these are _not_ the XSLT filters, but completely new code).

Interesting that they tout support for ISO PDF, but there is no similar ISO ODF checkbox (given my last comment about it being nice if you could make OOo output ISO-standard ODF – ODF 1.2, which is what this version outputs, isn’t even an OASIS standard yet, let alone an ISO one…)